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Beethoven Symphony No.5

''Throw away your first 100 Beethoven Fifths'' was Karajan's advice to Simon Rattle. ''That leaves me 95 still to go,''...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/1994

Prokofiev plays Prokofiev

The booklet may be skimpy, but at this price few are likely to resist two indisputable classics of the gramophone....

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2000

Wieniawski Violin Concertos Nos 1 and 2; Faust Fantasy

Wieniawski was only in his teens when he wrote the first of his two violin concertos, in Russia in the...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/1997

La Sophie

It is understandable that Sophie Yates should have been tempted to call this disc after a supposed namesake of hers;...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 10/1996

Mozart Concertos

Both these performances originally appeared on different single LPs (K622 coupled with the Bassoon Concerto, K191; K299 with the Sinfonia...

Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 5/1985

Verdi Ernani

Changing CDs between Acts 2 and 3, I came ruefully and prematurely to conclude that Ernani is an opera for...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 9/2006

Shostakovich Symphony 11

A Rozhdestvensky protege best known in the UK as a choral conductor, Polyansky goes further than his teacher (Olympia, 11/88...

Reviewed in issue 7/1997

Taneyev Orchestral Works

Taneyev is one of those composers apparently destined to be more admired than loved—rather like Reger, perhaps, whose heavy antique...

Reviewed in issue 4/1993

G.Lloyd Symphony No 8

It was George Lloyd’s Eighth Symphony that stimulated a fresh growth of interest in the composer’s music when it was...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 6/1997

Musa Latina

The influence on music of the Renaissance’s rediscovery (or, perhaps better, “reinvention”) of antiquity has been comparatively little explored on...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 1/2010

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