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Vivaldi The Four Seasons

Inexplicably The Four Seasons is at the top of the list of most often recorded pieces of classical music—and this...

Reviewed in issue 9/1985

Icelandic Orchestral Works

It is good to have the chance to get acquainted with a cross-section of Icelandic orchestral music, in thoroughly well-prepared...

Reviewed in issue 10/1993

Machaut Remede de Fortune

In his lifetime, Machaut's renown rested as much on his poetry as on his music and he himself, as the...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/1994

Boyce Pindar's Ode; New Year Ode

Here is another disc – the last‚ alas! – in the Boyce series from Graham Lea­Cox. Those who like Boyce’s...

Reviewed in issue 2/2002

Prokofiev Peter and the Wolf. Tchaikovsky Nutcracker Suite

This version of Peter and the Wolf, like most these days, has a different narrator superimposed, depending on the country...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/1985

Hofmann Cello Concertos

The supremacy of Haydn and Mozart has always cast a shadow over the other Viennese composers of their time. In...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 13/1998

(De) Aeternitate

Ever since Reinhard Goebel and Musica Antiqua Köln introduced us in 1986 to the glories of Bach’s ancestors – and...

Reviewed in issue 8/2002

Mozart Piano Encores and Premieres

The Cypriot-born pianist has spent much of 2006 celebrating Mozart’s 250th anniversary. These two discs form part of a continuing...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2006

Gluck Orfeo ed Euridice

The first version of this opera was set to an Italian libretto, and Orpheus was sung by an alto castrato....

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 1/2005

Ravel Piano Concertos; Piano Works

This two-disc set (the complete solo piano works with the two concertos as a substantial bonus) certainly offers value for...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/1994

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