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(The) Very Best of Janet Baker

Critic‚ reviewer‚ commentator‚ whatever: we’re all superfluous here. Programme‚ performance‚ recording‚ all are beyond praise. And certainly no word of...

Reviewed in issue 13/2002

Columba, Most Holy of Saints

There was a flurry of excitement when a proper Office of St Columba, discovered in a fourteenth-century fragment of an...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 3/1993

Bartók Piano Works

Bartok a la francaise, elegant and bright in tone, yes—but a far cry from the 'real thing' as rekindled by...

Reviewed in issue 1/1995

O Mistress Mine - Lute songs and solos

One quite unthinkingly assumes the English lute song to be the preserve of English singers, so closely associated is it...

Reviewed in issue 10/1991

Albinoni - Homage to a Spanish Grandee

Discovered only about 45 years ago, the concertos Op 10 (12 in all, written in 1735 36) probably sat in...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 8/2010

Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin

This imaginative staging by Lehnhoff derives from the 1998 Baden-Baden Festival, given by the young singers of the European Union...

Reviewed in issue 5/2001

Nicolai Malko

It is sad that Nicolai Malko, from 1926 the Chief Conductor of the Leningrad Philharmonic and the first interpreter of...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1996

Bartók Piano Concerto 3; Prokofiev Piano Concerto 3

Here we have two very different No. 3s primarily linked, as the note astutely observes, by the fact that both...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 12/1984

Arnold Piano Works

Although his concertos for two pianos are familiar (especially the one originally written in three-handed form for Cyril Smith and...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/1995

Schubert Piano Trios

I have to confess I hadn’t previously encountered the Trio Dali. My loss: this new set of Schubert’s piano trios...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2011

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