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The Music of Arni Björnsson

All Icelandic music is new music. Composer and pianist Arni Bjornsson, who died in 1995, learned his trade at a...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 6/1997

Scarlatti Sonatas

Glen Wilson's recording of Bach's 48 received a fair modicum of approval from NA in these columns (4/90); but between...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 5/1993

Beethoven Piano Sonatas

Not Beethoven's first ventures into the realm of the piano sonata, but the first three he thought worthy of publication....

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 5/1993

Handel: Overtures

It will be the privilege of a very few of us, I hear, to be able to see, or even...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 12/1986

Juan Diego Flórez - Una Furtiva Lagrima

Naturally enough, Juan Diego Flórez made his début as a recitalist on record in Rossini (4/02), and it was a...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 9/2003

The Fenby Legacy

I remember hearing John Goldsmith's public presentation of this famous set (when it was first issued on LP) at the...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/1987

Quilter Songs

Roger Quilter's circumscribed but genuine and beautifully wrought art has given Britain a songwriter who invites comparison with Duparc. Perhaps...

Reviewed in issue 3/1990

Messager Les Deux Pigeons

Les deux pigeons is a score of such tunefulness and refinement that it is surprising it has taken Bonynge so...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 10/1993

Works for String Quartet

Very clever. The Grosse Fuge is acclaimed in the notes accompanying this collection as ''the founding work of modern music''...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 11/1990

Bach Keyboard Works

I am quite sure that when, in his booklet-note, Jeremy Siepmann calls Bach’s keyboard suites “essentially players’ music”, what he...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 4/1996

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