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Bach Solo Violin Works for Guitar

The compass of the guitar is similar to that of the cello and, though one octave lower, that of the...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 9/1989

R.Strauss Lieder

Over a period of 70 years Strauss wrote songs that are marvellously grateful for the soprano voice. Edith Wiens is...

Reviewed in issue 7/1996

Forgotten Provence

Here is a true beakerful of the warm south: four centuries of song from herb-scented Provence, songs of love, songs...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 3/1996

Britten Music for Strings

Very enjoyable. The teenage tunes in the Simple Symphony and the extraordinary range of invention in the Variations, written ten...

Reviewed in issue 8/1985

Grieg & Schumann Piano concertos

It would surely have been kinder to have let Peter Katin's Grieg and Tchaikovsky rest in peace. In neither concerto...

Reviewed in issue 11/1989

Mozart Don Giovanni

This performance, from La Scala’s 1987 opening production, was almost the first operatic DVD ever to appear – in America...

Reviewed by mscott rohan in issue: 10/2004

Britten War Requiem

“It makes criticism impertinent,” thought Peter Shaffer of the War Requiem, and for all Stravinsky’s grousing that any such criticism...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 1/2008

Bruckner Symphony No 8

Bruckner’s mighty Eighth, the ne plus ultra of his achievement as a symphonist, took three years to make and a...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/2009

Beethoven Complete Works for Piano and Cello

Between them, Menahem Pressler and Antonio Meneses offer us a rare listening privilege, with playing that is at once intimate,...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 8/2008

Brahms Lieder

The appearance of Jessye Norman's Brahms Lieder selection on CD amplifies and enriches its already deeply satisfying thematic balance. This...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 5/1986

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