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Mozart Piano Sonatas, Vol. 4

The fourth volume in Haebler's complete De on cycle still only brings her total of sonatas to ten—plus the C...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 7/1989

Paganini arr Kreisler (La) Campanella

Like most people interested in string playing, I’m a keen admirer of Fritz Kreisler: of the communicative power of his...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 11/2010

Cowell - Chamber Works

The trouble with Henry Cowell is that he wrote so much music - nearly 1,000 official opus numbers - that...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 13/1999

Enescu Piano Works

Even if you were to venture no further than the first track (the Second Suite’s glorious opening Toccata), you would...

Reviewed in issue 4/1999

Bach Secular Cantatas

Bach designated each of these a ''dramma per musica'' (an early term for opera), but there is only minimal drama...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 12/1992

The Incomparable Alfredo Kraus

Very, very hard it is to credit the indisputable truth that this is a man, and a tenor, half-way through...

Reviewed in issue 8/1995

Shostakovich Symphony No 4

Maxim Shostakovich’s contribution to the great Testimony debate (Hamish Hamilton: 1979) has been sensible and measured; he accepts the substantive...

Reviewed in issue 1/1999

Beethoven Symphony 9

Some of Leonard Bernstein's recent recorded interpretations have been so idiosyncratic that his general regard for the letter of the...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 3/1988

Ravel Piano Works, Vol.2

This is enjoyable and a pretty impressive achievement, for Louis Lortie is a very intelligent player who possesses a sense...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 10/1989

Toch Symphonies Nos 1 and 4

Many composers have turned to the symphony later in life, usually to produce a solitary example – as in the...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 8/2004

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