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R.Strauss Tone Poems

Strauss's music was always very well served by the record industry in Europe. Even in the pre-electric era there were...

Reviewed in issue 11/1992

Groovebox

The suite inspired by the Engadine Valley in Switzerland is Maurice Jarre’s Four Seasons, full of characteristic chords, cadences and,...

Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 8/2003

Rebel Violin Sonatas

Read about Jean-Fery Rebel in any textbook or dictionary, and you will find the same remark made by one of...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 4/1999

Gerhard Orchestral Works

A curious note on the box states “This recording was made in collaboration with the BBC Symphony Orchestra”. Seeing that...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 5/1998

La Folia

Jordi Savall’s latest release on his own Alia Vox label charts two centuries of musical madness in the shape of...

Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 6/1999

Haydn Masses, Volume 1

Richard Hickox has long been an invigorating exponent of Haydn’s Masses, and this disc bodes well for his projected complete...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 4/1996

Bach (Die) Kunst der Fuge BWV1080

Every man needs a hobby. For Bach this meant spending his final decade developing, honing and revising The Art of...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 13/2010

Lockerbie Memorial Concert

This recording reproduces the concert held at Westminster Cathedral on the 10th anniversary of the Lockerbie tragedy. Renaissance music is...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2003

Mozart Die Zauberflöte

There’s virtually nothing new under the sun. In its crisp, swift and precise speeds and articulation, and the slim sound...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1998

Mozart Complete Violin Concertos

It would be hard to find a more genial set of Mozart’s string concertos. Joy in the music-making brims over...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/2005

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