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Bartók Duke Bluebeard's Castle

Having hungrily devoured every note of Kertesz's Bluebeard when it was first issued back in 1966, I approached this latest...

Reviewed in issue 4/1995

Prokofiev Semyon Kotko

Prokofiev’s Semyon Kotko contains some first-rate music whether you choose to look at it as a transmutation of the not...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 5/2003

Berlioz L'enfance du Christ

This new recording of Berlioz's L'enfance du Christ, by the choir of King's College, Cambridge, comes, most appropriately, just as...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 12/1990

Schnabel plays Schubert

In the 1920s and 1930s, Artur Schnabel, and that too little known pianist Eduard Erdmann more or less single-handedly staged...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 5/1992

Mozart Piano Concertos Nos 20 and 22

Michel Dalberto is best remembered in Britain as the winner of the 1978 Leeds Piano Competition, yet, rightly, bravura of...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/2003

Guerrero Sacred Choral Music

Quite why Guerrero has had to wait so long in the wings of musical history – longer, even, than Morales...

Reviewed in issue 12/1997

Mozart Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1

I've enjoyed some of Christian Zacharias's Mozart recordings in the past, but listening to these six sonatas as a group...

Reviewed in issue 12/1987

Vivaldi: Guitar Concertos

What we have here is a selection of Vivaldi's works for mandolin (the Double Concerto, RV532) and lute (Concerto, RV93...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 2/1986

Cage Complete Piano Music, Vol 4

I discussed the first two volumes of this series in detail (3/98, A/98), mentioned the third volume, consisting of 'Music...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 2/2000

John Marsh: Five Symphonies

This issue finds a Sussex record company recording a Sussex ensemble in music by a Sussex musician—a praiseworthy example of...

Reviewed in issue 2/1990

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