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English Mad Songs and Ayres

It's perhaps a bit misleading of Dorian to call this disc ''English Mad Songs and Ayres''; the emphasis on the...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 5/1992

Sacred Songs

It is difficult to know quite how seriously to take this disc of Chants sacres, recorded as it is by...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 4/1991

Sallinen: Orchestral Works

It is now almost a quarter of a century since Sallinen first came to international attention with Mauermusik, written in...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 6/1986

Handel Agrippina

Agrippina was first performed at Venice’s Teatro San Giovanni Crisostomo on December 26, 1709, towards the end of Handel’s extended...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 7/2004

Pierne Chamber Works, Vol 1

Gabriel Pierné will be an unfamiliar name to most readers, although those remembering the 78rpm era may recall his once-famous...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 3/2007

Tchaikovsky Works for Violin and Orchestra

Three more versions of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto, all with their claims, add to a bewildering choice of over 30...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 9/1990

Rachmaninov/Scriabin/Prokofiev Piano Sonatas

In August an almost identical collection of Russian piano sonatas, excluding Scriabin's Ninth, was reviewed by DJF. There, the pianist...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/1994

Classic Kennedy

Kennedy is a people's violinist to contrast with say, Heifetz, or Kreisler or David Oistrakh, all of whom were 'violinists'...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/1999

Covent Garden Gala Concert

Galas are in the bloodstream at Covent Garden; they have been giving them there, on and off, for over a...

Reviewed in issue 9/1989

Donizetti Lucia di Lammermoor

What a wonderful opera it is after all. There is now no question of listening to it for 'the big...

Reviewed in issue 11/1992

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