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Beethoven Fidelio

When apparently pragmatic details of a recording's editing and layout articulate and underline the essential character of a performance, then...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 6/1987

Bach Concertos for 3 and 4 Keyboards

This seems to have got separated from a companion release. When SP reviewed the LP version last June there was...

Reviewed in issue 5/1985

English Songs Peter Warloch and Ralph Vaughan Williams

This spellbinding recital of English songs was first issued nearly ten years ago on an Oxford University Press LP. It...

Reviewed in issue 4/1990

More songs my father taught me

Sir Thomas dedicated the first volume (5/02) to the memory of his father, who had these songs always at hand...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 8/2003

McCabe Symphony No 4; Flute Concerto

Hyperion continues its eloquent efforts on behalf of John McCabe (b.1939) with this exemplary pairing of two of his most...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 1/2000

Rossini Unpublished Arias for Tenor

This collection of little-known, mainly early, arias and scenas for tenor and orchestra by Rossini is not, strictly speaking, a...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 4/1997

Holborne - My Selfe

A whole disc of Holborne’s music, for which I have long had special affection, is a delightful prospect in itself;...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 10/1999

Chopin Waltzes

Maria Joao Pires sets the 14 Waltzes of the standard edition in the order adopted by Dinu Lipatti (HMV mono...

Reviewed in issue 1/1985

Beethoven Diabelli Variations

This is the most intelligent, searching and sheerly delightful account of the Diabelli Variations to have reached us since Alfred...

Reviewed in issue 8/2001

Something New

Brass music continues to flourish in the UK, as these discs confirm. “Something New” focuses on the repertoire of the...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 1/2009

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