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Mozart: Early Symphonies

Four of the symphonies on Marriner's disc were written when Mozart was 17, though not in the order which their...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 12/1988

Mozart Symphonies

While the 'authentic' approach to recent Mozart recordings has given much pleasure, the ECO make a convincing argument in every...

Reviewed in issue 7/1985

Prokofiev & Shostakovich Cello Sonatas

Has CD solved the problem of instrumental balance in music like this? The above issue suggests as much, for both...

Reviewed in issue 4/1985

Michael Bolton - My Secret Passion: The Arias

For the uninitiated, Michael Bolton, a pop singer whose heartfelt vocal style would seem to imply a possible sympathy for...

Reviewed by jjolly in issue: 7/1998

Shostakovich Piano Trios Nos. 1 and 2

This disc is worth considering at the price but I am not persuaded that it is a Naxos triumph. While...

Reviewed in issue 7/1997

Arensky Piano Concerto

Arensky’s Piano Concerto has never enjoyed a particularly good press, and given its near-plagiaristic closeness to Liszt and Chopin it...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 7/2009

Brahms Orchestral works

An outstanding performance. Solti, often a conductor whose good intentions are marred by an excess of tension in his character,...

Reviewed in issue 8/1985

Grier Twelve Anthems

Let us invoke Christ already appears in the catalogue in a stirring performance by the work’s dedicatee, John Scott and...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 8/1996

Bruckner Symphony No 7

As one might expect of Tennstedt, this is a vital and generous-spirited account of Bruckner’s Seventh, though the style of...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/2008

Schumann/Schubert Piano Works

Ugorski's flights of imagination are heard to far better advantage in Schumann than in Beethoven (see reviews 4/92 and 2/93)....

Reviewed in issue 10/1993

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