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Bernstein, L Peter Pan

If you happen to be one of the few who possess or has heard the original cast album for the...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 13/2005

York Bowen Piano Works

More than 40 years ago, as a first-year undergraduate at Cambridge, I played York Bowen's First Ballade at the University...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 12/1995

Rachmaninov Études-tableaux; Corelli Variations

On the face of it, this is an interesting coupling of two Rachmaninov works which are sharply contrasted one with...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 2/2010

Venetian Music of the 17th Century

The prospect of Venetian music of the 17th century conjures up expectations of madrigals and monody on the one hand...

Reviewed in issue 13/2001

Purcell: Songs

Paul Esswood's great assets, I need hardly mention, are his sensitivity to the words and the unusual smoothness of his...

Reviewed in issue 7/1983

Artur Schnabel in Performance

Listening to this historically important CD reminded me how, for years, Artur Schnabel was thought of as the stereotypical ‘intellectual’...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 3/2003

Tchaikovsky: Songs

Tchaikovsky's songs, over 100 of them, are still too little known, perhaps in part because the tradition is unfamiliar to...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 8/1989

Gigout Complete Organ Works, Vol 3

Until Gerard Brooks came on the scene, I doubt whether any but the most dedicated specialists had any idea just...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 7/2004

Russian Cello Works

Hoffman and Bianconi's performances here are most appealing - rich-sounding and warmly romantic. In the Shostakovich Sonata they don't have...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 4/2000

Lehár Die lustige Witwe

First the cliche. You wait 14 years for a new Merry Widow and then two come along at once! Only...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 2/1995

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