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Schumann: Piano Works

In 20 or so years of concert going I can truthfully say that I have only ever heard a piano...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 7/1989

Handel Water Music

Gardiner presents the three suites in what seems to be their logical order (F, G, D), corresponding to the sequence...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 5/1993

Puccini (Il) Trittico

Each constituent panel of the Trittico is so difficult to get right that an ideally satisfying complete recording is almost...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 2/1991

Mozart Die Zauberflöte

Naxos have done it again. Once more they effectively challenge the hegemony of more prestigious companies that sell their wares...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1994

Respighi Concerto in modo misolidio; Fontane di Roma

There are only two other versions of the Concerto currently available, by Geoffrey Tozer and Konstantin Scherbakov on Chandos and...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2011

Graupner Overtures & Cantata

Christoph Graupner was the second of two preferred choices – Telemann was the first – of the Leipzig authorities for...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 7/1999

Bruckner Symphony No 4

There is pedigree aplenty here. Günter Wand, whose affinity for Bruckner in general and the Fourth Symphony in particular is...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/2007

Borodin Prince Igor

As with the opera itself, so with this recording: the defects must be got out of the way if one...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/1996

Haydn: Keyboard Sonatas

Julia Cload's disc comes with a glowing tribute by the great Haydn scholar H. C. Robbins Landon: the sonatas, he...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 5/1990

Berlioz Requiem

When the signed commission for a Requiem arrived from the French government, Berlioz wrote to his sister: ‘At first my...

Reviewed by rnichols in issue: 1/2005

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