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(The) Coronation of King George II

Many coronations have come and gone in British history‚ but that of George II‚ which took place in Westminster Abbey...

Reviewed in issue 12/2001

Mozart Early String Quartets

These 13 quartets were composed between 1770 and 1773, or more precisely in 1770 in the case of the G...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 6/1992

Janacek Opera Suites Vol. 3

The suite usually performed from Janácek’'s The Cunning Little Vixen, arranged by Talich in the 1930s, is a 17-minute diptych...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2009

Routh Piano Works

Francis Routh (b1927) has sought in his writing for the piano to combine a serial element with a tonal centre....

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 5/2003

Handel Giulio Cesare

If this isn't the greatest of all baroque operas, indeed the greatest opera before Mozart, then I really don't know...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 4/1992

Prokofiev Symphonies

While the Seventh was put on disc almost immediately after its composition, the Second was among the last of Prokofiev's...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 10/1991

Awake, Sweet Love

The music of Dowland opens, closes and appears at various times throughout, providing a substratum for that of others, much...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 10/1991

Wolf: Goethe Lieder

Wolf once spoke of music as a vampire, sucking out the last drop of blood from poetry: the very intensity,...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 5/1986

A Solo - Paolo Pandolfo

Seventy-seven minutes of music for unaccompanied viola da gamba? Well yes, and every second of it is a pleasure in...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 8/1998

Bush; McCabe; Rawsthorne Songs

The unenticing frontispiece of this disc is dominated by the words PRISON CYCLE, but with a sketch of Rawsthorne amiably...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/2004

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