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Monteverdi Madrigals, Book VIII

This “new” release from Concerto Italiano brings together two recordings originally issued on Opus 111 (11/97, 12/98) and a newly...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2006

Apostel and the String Quartet

Hans Erich Apostel (1901-72) is famous more for the reflected glory of managing to study with Schoenberg and Berg than...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 5/2011

Walton Chamber Music

The important newcomer here is the Toccata for violin and piano, which Walton wrote between 1922 and 1923, rather longer...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/1994

Hummel Pf Conc No 4; Double Concerto

Think of Hummel piano concertos and you will probably think of Stephen Hough. His Gramophone Award-winning disc of...

Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 4/1999

Elizabethan lute songs and solos

''In the Theatre'' is the genre heading for the first group. The songs are Shakespearean and include the traditional setting...

Reviewed in issue 3/1987

Victoria Hail, Mother of the Redeemer

Modern listeners, unless they are singers or scholars, may be surprised or disappointed by the consistency of style in this...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 7/2011

Nat Gonella and his Georgians

When Louis Armstrong first visited the UK in 1932 he was denounced as a dangerous barbarian by audiences, sections of...

Reviewed by dgelly in issue: 1/1999

Mahler Symphony No 2, 'Ressurection'

With Mahler’s Resurrection no longer “an event” in the concert hall or on disc it can be hard to engender...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 7/2010

Master Works II-For Organ and Orchestra

While the nineteenth-century fashion for putting large organs in civic buildings inspired composers to write for organ with orchestra, the...

Reviewed in issue 1/1998

Bach (The) Art of Fugue

Do the mellow, thoughtful and unpressured qualities that Konstantin Lifschitz brings to Bach’s Art of Fugue correspond to the gentle,...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 4/2011

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