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Paganini (24) Capricci

From the start‚ and in most of the fast‚ brilliant caprices‚ Marco Rogliano draws a vivid‚ impressionistic portrait of Paganini‚...

Reviewed in issue 6/2002

Monteverdi Vespers

You don’t have to agree with John Eliot Gardiner’s suggestion that Monteverdi’s Vespers may have been written as a kind...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 5/2003

Holst Ballet & Orchestral Music

A new set of The Planets on Virgin Classics offers the kind of lively, committed playing one expects from the...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 3/1990

Handel Organ Concertos

This rather splendid recording transports you back to the days when Handel’s organ concertos were considered grand and imposing music,...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 8/1999

Walton Choral works

Here at last is the ideal coupling for Belshazzar's Feast, the other ambitious choral work which Walton wrote in his...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/1989

Mozart Symphonies 40 & 41

These were highly regarded versions when they were first issued, notable for the warmth of the playing in slow movements,...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 1/1989

Fauré Piano Quartet 1 & 2

It's odd that two couplings of this splendid pair of works should have appeared from British artists within the brief...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 3/1986

Bach Keyboard Concertos, Vol 2

Follow­up albums don’t always fulfil the promise of their predecessors‚ but this one certainly does. More than fulfils it‚ in...

Reviewed in issue 6/2002

Cavalli Artemisia

The fourth-century BC Mausoleum at Halicarnassus was one of the Seven Wonders of the World. It lasted for centuries before...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 9/2011

Mozart Opera Arias

The CD player programming button whereby you can reorder the programme to your own liking might come in handy here....

Reviewed in issue 11/1997

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