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Panufnik Westminster Mass

Bells – though not the Westminster Chimes, which emanate from another part of the borough – accompany the opening of...

Reviewed in issue 11/1999

Horszowski recital

Alan Bennett observed that “if you live to be 90 in England and can still eat a boiled egg they...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 8/2008

Bach Cantatas

It would be hard to think of a trio of works better suited to opening the door of Bach's treasure...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 7/1990

Handel Judas Maccabaeus

Leonardo García Alarcón uses plenty of unsupportable sweeping statements to claim that Judas Maccabaeus deserves to be resurrected up to...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 8/2010

G.Lloyd John Socman (highlights)

As with Iernin, George Lloyd's other recently recorded opera (Albany, 9/94), the heart goes out to it: that is to...

Reviewed in issue 1/1995

Holst Orchestral Works

This disc very usefully contains all the Holst recordings made for Lyrita by Sir Adrian (with the exception of an...

Reviewed in issue 7/1992

C.P.E. Bach Oboe Concertos

Capriccio have looked after the interests of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach generously if not always discerningly in its 14 volume...

Reviewed in issue 10/1988

Zimmermann (Die) Soldaten

Zimmermann's searing melodrama is based on an 18th-century play, but its emphasis on social decadence and militaristic brutalisation has obvious...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 4/2008

Schubert Piano Trio No. 2, D929

I like the story, quoted in the sleeve-note here, of Stravinsky being asked if Schubert's prolixities did not put him...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 11/1984

Mozart Complete Piano Concertos; Haydn Concerto in D

A tribute to true musical greatness, APR’s reissue of Edwin Fischer’s complete Mozart studio recordings dating from 1933-47 is cause...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 7/2010

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