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Purcell Dido and Aeneas

Trevor Pinnock's Dido is a more languid affair than those listed above. Less over-dotting, fewer extremes of tempo, no funny...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 10/1989

Bruckner Symphony No 6

After Sir Colin Davis’s eloquent and far-seeing account of Bruckner’s Ninth (1/03), I was more than a little intrigued to...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/2003

Haydn String Quartets Op 9

Haydn’s Op 9 quartets of c1769 have always led something of a shadow life. The minor mode around this time...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2007

Kashkashian/Levin Elegies

The sparse cover of this disc, which is subtitled ''Elegies'' has a reproduction of a pallidly coloured abstract picture by...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 9/1986

Fauré Choral Works

How much should the French music publisher Hamelle be blamed for suggesting that Fauré expand his ‘petit Requiem’ into a...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 13/2003

Schubert Goethe Lieder

This issue further enhances Pregardien’s reputation as a Schubert interpreter. In a judiciously chosen selection of the Goethe settings, he...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1996

Elgar Falstaff

David Lloyd-Jones presides over a consistently involving, honest-to-goodness account of Falstaff. Here is a more propulsive view of Elgar’s masterpiece...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 2/1999

Bach: Harpsichord Concertos

This, though not so described, is in effect Volume 2, complementing 'Volume 1', issued just over a year ago (...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 1/1989

Walton Cello Concerto

The inspired Dutch cellist Peter Wispelwey here couples the Walton Cello Concerto with a sequence of works for unaccompanied cello....

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/2009

Mozart Concert Arias

It was a good 35 years ago that we first learnt the name of Teresa Stich-Randall and wondered whether to...

Reviewed in issue 12/1987

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