Bach; Paganini; Ysaye Solo Violin Sonatas

Recorded at Potton Hall‚ Suffolk‚ as recently as May this year‚ this solo violin recital offers a masterly demonstration of...

Reviewed in issue 13/2002

Bach Cantatas, Vol 34

On March 25, 1725, Bach celebrated the Feast of the Annunciation and Palm Sunday with a special cantata, Wie schön...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 6/2007

Guitar Works

The connecting link in this programme is Villa-Lobos and his influence on the guitar music of Brouwer and Orbon, both...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 9/1989

Oboe/Cor anglais and Harp Recital

Flute and harp, yes, familiar enough; oboe and harp, not so familiar, but (given the right players) suggest at the...

Reviewed in issue 12/1991

Bach Cantatas Nos 21 & 147

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 9/2006

Sibelius Symphony No 2

Ashkenazy's Sibelius series with the Philharmonia yielded one of the outstanding demonstration discs of the first batch of CDs last...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/1984

Elgar Orchestral Works

A confession: I slotted this disc into the CD player without much enthusiasm. Sir Neville Marriner's conducting has never done...

Reviewed in issue 12/1991

Grieg (The) Complete Songs, Vol 5

BIS’s extraordinary notes quote major Grieg authorities determined to damn many of these songs with not even faint praise. The...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 6/2006

Verdi Rigoletto

Compared with the roughly contemporaneous Covent Garden version‚ directed by McVicar‚ this one has little to offer. The staging is...

Reviewed in issue 7/2002

Vaughan Williams Dona Nobis Pacem; Five Mystical Songs

Fifteen years separate this Chandos recording of Vaughan Williams's 1936 cantata Dona nobis pacem from EMI's with Boult and the...

Reviewed in issue 3/1989