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(The) Beecham Touch

This programme has been very skilfully chosen to show the outstanding qualities of the pre-war LPO and its founder. Not...

Reviewed in issue 10/1993

Vivaldi - Bellezza Crudel

It seems that it is becoming the norm to put out discs of Vivaldi chamber cantatas mixed with other works...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2009

Mahler Symphony No 1 (with Blumine)

Compact Disc is the ideal medium in which to experiment with a heretical, five-movement Mahler First. In the LP era,...

Reviewed in issue 3/1994

Mahler Symphony No 2

No doubt there will be more Mahler from San Francisco when Herbert Blomstedt hands over the reins to Michael Tilson...

Reviewed in issue 12/1994

Verdi Aida

They don’t make them like this any more – in every sense. In the 1950s and 1960s EMI made a...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1999

Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Artur Schnabel

Listening to Artur Schnabel’s Beethoven, one can easily imagine the composer himself caught in the act of creation, impatiently snatching...

Reviewed in issue 4/1999

Nicolai (Die) Lustigen Weiber von Windsor

It was high time we had a modern version of Nicolai’s delightful Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor. While recordings of...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 2/2009

Verdi Don Carlo

It was a great night at Covent Garden, though, of course, one had reservations. With the DVD they recede, I...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/2010

Schubert Quartets D804, D703 & D87

‘Schubert’s Quartet has been performed, rather slowly in his opinion, but very purely and tenderly,’ wrote Moritz von Schwind on...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 3/2003

Adès Piano Works

This is the most exciting collection of music by a young composer that I have heard for a very, very...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 6/1997

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