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Poulenc and his French Contemporaries

Apart from Wishart, the composers on the British album are alive, and all, with the exception of Joubert, relatively young....

Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 10/2006

Berlioz La damnation de Faust

Though now over a dozen years old, this magnificent performance has well stook the test of time. That need not...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 1/1987

Bach Organ Works, Vol. 2

Both these players have produced complete recordings of Bach's organ works in the last 15 years or so: Rubsam's (for...

Reviewed by prussell in issue: 12/1994

Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No 1

Pretty high-voltage playing from Argerich though you can say the same about the Gilels version on CBS, also recorded live...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 1/1984

20th Century Orchestral Works

It takes a fairiy exceptional account of the Kleine Dreigroschenmusik to hold a candle to the London Sinfonietta on DG,...

Reviewed in issue 8/1989

Zemlinsky String Quartets Nos 1 & 3

One hopes that the Zemlinsky Quartet would offer special insights into the quartets of Zemlinsky, and so it proves: these...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/2007

Arnold Symphonies Nos 5 and 6

Arnold's Fifth Symphony is one of his most accessible and rewarding works and the composer's own EMI recording, made in...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/1995

Shvedov Liturgy of St John Chrysostom

The name of Konstantin Nikolaevich Shvedov (1886–1954) is not likely to be very familiar even to those who are aficionados...

Reviewed in issue 1/1995

R.Strauss Tone Poems

Of the recordings of Strauss's three most popular tone-poems there seems just now to be no end. Since they are...

Reviewed in issue 9/1991

Pavarotti - The Early Years, Vol.1

Probably the unique penalty of singing as well as Pavarotti has been doing in his late fifties is that records...

Reviewed in issue 10/1995

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