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Le Sueur Oratorios for the Coronation of Charles X

I thought this release would be interesting and I was right. The rare opportunity to hear music by Berlioz's teacher...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/1994

George Weldon conducts British music

Some background information to begin with, I think. After a spell as Julius Harrison’s assistant at the Hastings Municipal Orchestra,...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 7/1997

Donizetti La fille du régiment

''It is slight, it is familiar, it is catching, it is everything that pedants find easy to condemn.'' So Henry...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1987

Romantic Violin Concertos

Having been awarded a 1999 Gramophone Award for this ongoing series, the Naxos box of 'British Orchestral Masterpieces' must receive...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 3/2000

Beethoven Symphonies Nos 7 & 8

No one who relates to Toscanini’s Beethoven on the one hand or Gardiner’s on the other will take issue with...

Reviewed in issue 7/1998

Violin Concertos

The revival in the popularity of the violin concerto during the latter part of the eighteenth century is winningly celebrated...

Reviewed in issue 9/1996

Berlioz Te Deum

It is surprising that the Berlioz Te Deum has been relatively neglected on disc in comparison with his other major...

Reviewed in issue 5/2001

Berg/Schoenberg/Webern Piano Works

This project has long been close to Peter Hill’s heart. He mentioned it when I interviewed him for Gramophone back...

Reviewed in issue 10/1999

Berkeley Symphony No 1

Anthony Burton, in his helpful note for the second of these two initial discs in the Berkeley Edition, draws illuminating...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/2002

Verdi Overtures

The sweetness of the Vienna string sound comes over with even more refinement in this CD transfer, though differences between...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1985

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