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Salzburg Serenades

As their clarinettist Dieter Klocker describes in his notes, there was so much casual music-making in and around Salzburg in...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 9/1990

Bach Das wohltemperirte Klavier

My enthusiasm for the original issue of Gould's performance of Book I was considerable but by the time Book 2...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 6/1989

Verdi Falstaff

A huge triumph for Glyndebourne, this. But before going on to particularise, perhaps we should tip some of our bouquets...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 5/2010

Bach Orchestral Suites

This new recording of Bach's four Orchestral Suites has many engaging qualities against which I must set one or two...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 8/1992

Bartók/Dohnányi Works for Piano and Orchestra

One might call this delightful collection “Richard Strauss in Hungary”, so obvious – and nourishing – is the German master’s...

Reviewed in issue 4/1996

Cage (The) Fives

Cage idolised Satie and composed two reworkings of his music for solo violin – Cheap Imitation, based on Socrate, and...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 7/2003

Debussy Piano Works

Most of Cecile Ousset's recordings so far have been of music on the largest scale: Liszt, Rachmaninov, Mussorgsky, Prokofiev. She...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 8/1986

Beethoven Cello Sonatas

Cellist Li-Wei Qin, born in Shanghai and educated in Australia and the UK, offers a highly accomplished Beethoven sonata cycle...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2011

Wagner (Das) Rheingold

We could use a new Ring on DVD. The versions by Levine and Boulez are ageing and variously unsatisfactory, while...

Reviewed by mscott rohan in issue: 4/2004

Renata Scotto sings arias and duets

One thinks one knows: one thinks one remembers. I thought, for instance, that I'd remembered the NAbucco recording and would...

Reviewed in issue 9/1987

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