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Verdi La Traviata

The EMI Double Forte series has always been excellent value, a pair of CDs being offered for the cost of...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 9/2000

Mendelssohn Elijah

We have been in need of a satisfying version of this oratorio in English. The recent Hickox version (Chandos) failed...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1992

Beethoven Piano Trios

These are immensely likeable performances, with everything clear and well-balanced, and the expansive, confident style of early Beethoven well conveyed,...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 7/2003

Liszt Piano Works, Vol. 1

Here is a tribute to Liszt’s multi-faceted genius as scintillating as it is dark-hued. The first volume of a complete...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/1997

Bruckner Symphony 5

Publishers publish ‘study’ scores, but no marketing guru has ever come up with the idea of the ‘study’ recording. They...

Reviewed in issue 5/2001

Schumann: Album für die Jugend

Writing to a friend in October 1848, Schumann confessed that the 43 little pieces of Album fur die Jugend had...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 9/1990

Alfred Hill: Orchestral Works

Alfred Hill (1870-1960), the Australian composer whose music is virtually unknown here, was a musician who was thoroughly grounded in...

Reviewed in issue 3/1986

Schubert (Die) Schöne Müllerin, D795

Should we sense the end of Die schöne Müllerin in its beginning? For Matthias Goerne, from the outset a disturbed,...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 2/2006

Gubaidulina Offertorium; Hommage

The name of Sofia Gubaidulina has been heard more and more often in the West in the last few years,...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 9/1989

Leigh Complete Chamber Works

Anyone looking for a forgotten but amiable mid-19th century English composer who wrote music in the shadow of Mendelssohn, need...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 1/2005

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