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Delius; Elgar; Walton Violin Sonatas

Fleeing from the Nazis in Berlin in 1934, the violinist Max Rostal came to London. He became not only a...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/2004

Mozart: Concertos

The first thing one notices about this issue is that it doesn't look as if it can be of four...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 3/1991

Mozart Pf Concs Nos. 20 & 24

Brendel's conception of Mozart's two minor-key concertos has altered in countless nuances and emphases but little in fundamentals since his...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 1/2000

Paisiello La Passione di Gesù Cristo

Those of us who have known Paisiello primarily, even exclusively, as composer of the original Il barbiere di Siviglia—a work...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 1/1989

Abril Orchestral Music

This disc documents a highly successful concert honouring Anton Garcia Abril, then 61 years old, on the occasion of his...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 6/1996

Venables At Midnight

Ian Venables has a distinctive “voice”, no less his own on account of its incorporating accents of his forebears –...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 10/2010

Shostakovich Complete Cello Works

These sure-footed versions of the Shostakovich concertos seem a tad earthbound when set against Heinrich Schiff’s recently reissued coupling (Philips,...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 13/2006

Barber & Britten Songs

It is good to have this pairing of songs by Barber and Britten, which was recorded as long ago as...

Reviewed in issue 10/1989

Meditation

Here is a desert-island disc which is also a disc for the island of the deserted spirit. It is, or...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 1/2005

Thin Red Line Original Soundtrack

Writer-director Terrence Malick was once a Rhodes scholar at Oxford, a philosophy professor and a journalist for Life magazine. We...

Reviewed in issue 5/1999

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