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Poulenc Mélodies & Songs

The basis of this compilation is a fine boxed set of five LPs from France issued there in 1979 and...

Reviewed in issue 1/1999

Stokowski conducts Sibelius and Shostakovich

Stokowski's account of the Sibelius Fourth Symphony was the first recording of the piece ever made. It preceded the Beecham...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 6/1992

Bliss Orchestral Works

A welcome and generous CD re-assembly. The colour of Bliss's music gains from the precision and wide dynamic range of...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 9/1987

Harty Orchestral Works

Back in the summer of 1996, Chandos cannily repackaged their enterprising and hugely enjoyable Harty series with Bryden Thomson and...

Reviewed in issue 5/2001

Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition

It might seem a curious decision for Leopold Stokowski to orchestrate Mussorgsky’s Pictures when Ravel’s 1922 version had such flair...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/2004

Boccherini Piano Quintets

Boccherini wrote his dozen piano quintets late in life, at the end of the 1790s; they are probably the finest...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 4/1997

John Jeffreys Who is at my Window-24 Tenor Songs

The list of compositions printed in the booklet shows John Jeffreys to be the writer of a large number of...

Reviewed in issue 9/1997

Elgar Choral Works

Here are two very important recordings for Elgarians and students of English music. Firstly, they close the gaps in the...

Reviewed in issue 3/1987

Mozart Concert Arias for Tenor

Circumstances of various kinds dictated that the vast majority of Mozart’s independent arias would be composed for the soprano voice,...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 6/2003

On Wings of Song

Ameling, in a note to this record, points out that this is a ''programme of songs you have heard me...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1989

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