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Britten The Folk Songs

Britten's 'complete' folk-song arrangements came out not long ago on Hyperion, with Malcolm Martineau as pianist and the excellent Lorna...

Reviewed in issue 11/1995

Beethoven Piano Sonatas

Budget-conscious collectors with a taste for musical adventure are already indebted to the American Vox company. At a time when...

Reviewed in issue 11/1993

David Tudor: Music for Piano

“David Tudor was no longer a name, but an indication of instrumentation,” writes Frank Hilberg as he introduces this survey...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 10/2007

Granados Goyescas

It was Ernest Newman who described the Goyescas as "piano music of the purest kind", giving one "the voluptuous sense...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 4/2009

Copland Orchestral Works

I know things are dry in Arizona but is that any excuse for the sound here? You'll be needing a...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 4/1992

(The) John Rutter Christmas Album

‘Subversive’ may not be the first word that comes to mind in connection with John Rutter, but (half-humorously perhaps) it...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/2002

D. Baker/Rochberg/Rorem Piano Trios

Under the general title of ''Spring Music'' the Beaux Arts Trio are commendably offering three new American chamber works, all...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 8/1994

Rare French Works

‘Rare’ is doubly true: the quality of the playing here deserves that adjective. Until I heard Philippe Graffin play Fauré’s...

Reviewed in issue 5/2002

Elgar The Apostles

Boult's 1973 EMI recording of The Apostles (recently deleted on CD) was a landmark in his career and he had...

Reviewed in issue 12/1990

Brahms Symphony No 4

As you would expect from a conductor so renowned in the large spans of Bruckner's symphonies as Gunter Wand, the...

Reviewed in issue 11/1985

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