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Davies Strathclyde Concertos 9 & 10

What an agreeable way to end a cycle of ten concertos. The Tenth is a Concerto for Orchestra, rather symphony-like...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 5/1997

Mozart Die Zauberflöte

When I reviewed this historic set on its last LP appearance more than 12 years ago, I recall comparing it...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1989

Reicha: Wind Quintets

A composer who befriended the aged Haydn, was regarded as a dangerous subversive by Cheru bini, earned the wary praise...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 8/1988

Julian Bream plays Bach

One so readily associates the names of Bream and Bach that it comes as a surprise to find that he...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 1/1995

Maria Callas at Juilliard

Hans Keller was of the opinion that few teachers in general and few teachers of musical masterclasses in particular could...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/1988

Lassus Missa pro defunctis; Prophetiae Sibyllarum

I’ve been expecting this disc for some time. I heard The Hilliard sing Lassus’s four-voice Requiem at the Saintes Festival...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 9/1998

Mozart Piano Concertos Nos 9, 12 and 14

Though these two discs have arrived at the same time and offer two of the same works, the differences between...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 5/2011

Heifetz plays Bach

It's strange that HMV recorded Heifetz in the two Sonatas and the Partita at the time they did, since the...

Reviewed in issue 2/1994

Vivaldi (The) Early Concertos For Cello Obligato

Vivaldi was one of the first composers to take the cello seriously, composing nine sonatas and 27 concertos for it...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2003

Crumb. Madrigals and Chamber works

Since George Crumb's soundscapes are imagined with such precision and sensitivity they are usually grateful for the performer and so...

Reviewed in issue 9/1988

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