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Mozart Orchestral Works

In making comparisons here one soon discovers that the Brainin/Schidlof coupling on Chandos enjoys the inestimable advantage of superlati ve...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/1985

Mozart Piano Quartets

The volume range would seem excessive in an English home (and unusual on an LP) but it would be effective...

Reviewed in issue 10/1984

Gershwin Porgy and Bess

In an ideal world, operatic recordings would always evolve in this way. Catfish Row came to Abbey Road Studio No....

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 6/1989

Chausson Concert; Franck Violin Sonata

This is repertory in which Decca artists have excelled over the years, but unlike the partnerships and ensembles listed above,...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/1996

Balakirev; Borodin; Rimsky-Korsakov Orchestral Works

One of the very few Beecham recordings that I have always found disappointing‚ lacking his characteristic fizz‚ is his 1955...

Reviewed in issue 5/2002

Stravinsky The Rake's Progress

It was high time that somebody asked Robert Craft to record The Rake's Progress. No one alive today is closer...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 3/1995

Liszt/Schubert Piano Works

These performances date from 1963, yet such is Sir Clifford Curzon’s alchemy that they seem timeless, as vital and poetic...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/1997

Puccini Tosca

Karajan's classic 1961 version of Tosca could not be more welcome as one of the first issues in Decca's Grand...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 1/1989

Mozart Clarinet Quintets

Mozart's Quintet, like his Clarinet Concerto, survives only in an arrangement his publisher made after his death. As has been...

Reviewed in issue 8/1985

Chopin - Piano Works

This may well be Kissin’s finest record to date; an audacious claim when you consider his previous offerings. At the...

Reviewed in issue 6/1999

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