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Review of Bach Trio Sonatas, Volume 2

Bach Trio Sonatas, Volume 2

The partnership between James Galway and Monica Huggett, playing at modern pitch, may raise the odd eyebrow, but it is...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 8/1997

Review of Trio Apollon - Works for Clarinet, Viola and Piano

Trio Apollon - Works for Clarinet, Viola and Piano

Works for clarinet, viola and piano are thin on the ground, examples by Mozart and Schumann being the best-known examples....

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 6/2006

Review of Mozart Chamber Works

Mozart Chamber Works

This is an unusual programme, with the three works featuring the oboe or cor anglais being complemented by the second...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 6/1996

Review of Haydn Nelson Mass; Theresienmesse

Haydn Nelson Mass; Theresienmesse

This second instalment of Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s series of the late Haydn Masses is, if anything, even more exciting...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 1/2003

Review of Offenbach Les Contes d'Hoffmann

Offenbach Les Contes d'Hoffmann

If there is one thing certain about a comparative review of Les contes d'Hoffmann, it must be that it will...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 12/1989

Review of Newman Hunchback of Notre-Dame

Newman Hunchback of Notre-Dame

The majestic opening to the short suite from All About Eve heralds this grand cinematic expression of high theatre. The...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 12/2007

Review of The American Virtuoso

The American Virtuoso

I welcomed Alan Feinberg's ''American Piano Music'' also on Argo (2/91) and now find much to enjoy in another American...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 5/1993

Review of Brahms Symphony No 3; Alto Rhapsody

Brahms Symphony No 3; Alto Rhapsody

I can't believe that Haitink intended the Third Symphony's first movement to have turned out as it has. The problem...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/1995

Review of Bach Das Wohltemperirte Klavier, Book 2

Bach Das Wohltemperirte Klavier, Book 2

Interpretation is born in the mind and if the requisite technique is present it emerges through the fingers, as it...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 1/1996

Review of (El) Misteri d'Elx

(El) Misteri d'Elx

The Misteri d’Elx is a mystery play performed every year by the people of Elche, a Catalan town famous for...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 13/2004


 

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