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Franck Piano Works

Only the most exalted comparisons will do for Stephen Hough’s latest disc, and even they are struggling to compete. Not...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 4/1997

Great Handel - Ian Bostridge

It seems like this is a new era in which every singer of repute must do a Handel album. Few...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 9/2007

Songs to words by Victor Hugo

As a collection, the songs on the first side are too pink and sky blue, too unvaryingly pretty. Interest and...

Reviewed in issue 5/1985

Haydn (Die) Schöpfung, 'The Creation'

Though the Mozarteum Orchestra uses modern instruments (keening valveless brass apart), this Creation is close in style, scale and transparency...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 8/2007

Jascha Heifetz - Violin Works

The insert-note here relates the remarkable story that Barbirolli, stepping off the boat-train at 11 o'clock one morning in 1935...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 5/1992

Barber Choral Music

Despite the best endeavours of record producers and performers, Samuel Barber is still a 'one-work' composer in the minds of...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 11/1993

Delius Violin Sonatas

There is a tendency, I fear, for some lovers of Delius's music to keep looking back to great artists of...

Reviewed in issue 7/1987

Giovanni Martinelli (1885-1969)

Caro Giovanni: ever-welcome to those for whom his records have meant something special over a period of time longer than...

Reviewed in issue 3/1993

Mozart Late Quartets, Volume 1

Accomplished though the Festetics Quartet are, I don't feel they quite have the measure of either of these works. In...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/1995

R. Strauss: Orchestral & Vocal Works

As the heading above indicates, this performance of the Sinfonia domestica is already available as part of DG's collection of...

Reviewed in issue 7/1990

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