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Brahms Clarinet Sonatas

Thea King and Clifford Benson, issued last year, are now challenged by Gervase de Peyer and Gwenneth Pryor, whose Chandos...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 3/1988

Handel Giulio Cesare

This latest version of what is surely Handel’s finest opera – to my mind, the finest of all Baroque operas...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 11/2003

(A) Mother's Love

With its sentimental title, this collection is clearly aimed at the wider market-place. But the programme is perceptively chosen to...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 11/2007

Agopov/Dutilleux Cello Concertos

The star of the 76-year-old French composer Henri Dutilleux is definitely in the ascendant. Hot on the heels of a...

Reviewed in issue 10/1992

Brahms Symphony No. 1

When a record company offers yet another recording of a work of which there are as many versions as there...

Reviewed in issue 4/1985

Foss Piano Concertos

For over half a century Lukas Foss has been an admirable figure in American musical life as composer, conductor, pianist...

Reviewed in issue 7/2001

Pachelbel/J. Christoph & J. M. Bach Motets

At the moment, Pachelbel is represented in the catalogue by 'that' canon (of which I see, to my stupefaction, that...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 7/1994

Tchaikovsky (The) Queen of Spades

It is not hard to understand what the audience at Munich’s National Theatre had to cheer about on November 24,...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 9/2011

Bruckner Symphonie in F Minor

Calling Bruckner’s Study Symphony in F minor ‘No. 00’ has always struck me as being both silly and cruel. It...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 5/1999

Humoresque Favourite Violin Encores

I am not quite sure what ''Humoresque'' actually means; but although it certainly serves for identification, it only doubtfully describes...

Reviewed in issue 7/1990

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