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Mozart, L Symphonies

It was not too grievous a loss to music when in the 1760s Leopold Mozart decided to give up composition...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 2/2004

Baroque Oboe Works

The Sonata, BWV1030, belongs to the transverse flute but its appropriation here is not simply a matter of filling a...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 8/1989

Maria Chiara - (The) Decca Recitals

The Chiara triptych – the three recital programmes recorded by this admired lyric soprano in the 1970s – is assembled...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/2005

By Arrangement Tetra Guitar Quartet

No single instrument, in the hands of a single player and without extraneous mechanical aid, is capable of a greater...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 11/1993

Britten Billy Budd

Almost two decades after Humphrey Carpenter’s controversial biography of Britten, opera directors have woken up to some of its revelations....

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 9/2011

Shostakovich (The) Golden Age

We don't think of Shostakovich as a ballet composer yet he wrote three between 1929 and 1935. Neglect is not...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 2/2007

Barber/Bernstein Works for Violin & Orchestra

Hu Kun's playing is full of poignant persuasion. When he finally lends his voice to the great tune at the...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 6/1992

Bach St Matthew Passion, BWV244

Beginning his review of the original issue of this recording, on four LPs, Trevor Harvey wrote: ''There are those (not...

Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 3/1988

Giordano Andrea Chénier

These four sets, issued by EMI to mark the 25th anniversary of Maria Callas’s death, are important historical documents on...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/2002

Previn Diversions; Songs

I once asked Andre Previn if there was any significance in his decision to use only strings and brass in...

Reviewed in issue 8/2001

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