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Mozart Keyboard Sonatas, Vol.1

With Mozart's piano concertos and piano and violin sonatas behind him—the latter not, regrettably, available in this country—Malcolm Bilson now...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 12/1989

Schnittke Symphony No 0; Nagasaki

As Symphony No 0s go, Alfred Schnittke’s student piece really isn’t bad. A substantial four-movement work that’s not short on...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 13/2007

Kurt Weill The Threepenny Opera

Between them these three CDs provide a fascinating view of the variety of styles in which Kurt Weill's music was...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 6/1991

Martinu Mirandolina

Carlo Goldoni’s La Locandiera (1753) is one of the great classic Italian comedies. It seems strange that no major Italian...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 10/2004

Barenboim Live at la Scala

Remarkably, this is the first live instrumental recital recorded at La Scala. Purely as a souvenir d’occasion, therefore, the disc...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 1/2008

La Rue Missa de Sancta Cruce; Quadris Lamentations

The Clerks’ Group have an established practice of presenting single-disc anthologies alongside a major multi-disc project. This time Pierre de...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 7/2003

Violin Concertos at the Court of Weimar

The idea behind this recording, that of assembling concertos which, to a greater or lesser extent probably provided Bach with...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 2/1989

Apollo's Banquet

Described in the booklet as “a 17th-century Jam Session”, “Apollo’s Banquet” explores the wonderful repertoire of English ballads and country...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 9/1998

Rachmaninov Symphony No. 2

Rattle as Principal Guest Conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic here makes his first recording with that orchestra, and the...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/1984

Austin; Bainton; Bowen British Symphonic Collection, Vol 10

With first-rate collections of piano music and chamber works already adorning the catalogue, the York Bowen mini-revival continues apace with...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2002

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