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Wagner Overtures & Preludes

If there is one moment that justifies the existence of this new CD it is the climax of the seldom...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1989

Prokofiev; Shchedrin Cello Works

This curious programme is not without a certain logic. Its most direct competitor is an all-Prokofiev miscellany in which Joseph...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 9/2008

Solomon plays Chopin

That such a great artist as Solomon should emerge from his cruelly fraught prodigy years only to find himself cut...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/2003

French Harp Music

Klinko, his own annotator, refers to ''the harp's ability to... emphasize the ethereal far beyond the scope of the piano''....

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 8/1993

Jean Sibelius The Early Years; Maturity and Silence

Some time in the early 1980s I was asked to check the script of this film for factual accuracy, and...

Reviewed in issue 3/1995

Schwartz, E Orchestral Works

Elliott Schwartz (b1936) has been neglected by the British record catalogue, which is surprising since he has at least a...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 13/2004

Alwyn Symphony No 4; Sinfonietta

William Alwyn planned his first four symphonies as a unified cycle, so the Fourth (completed in 1959 and premiered by...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 5/2006

Handel: La Resurrezione

When the 22-year-old Handel was commissioned, in 1708, to compose La Resurrezione he was virtually given carte blanche by his...

Reviewed in issue 7/1991

Bach Orchestral Suites, etc

Some years ago, I received a call from the then producer of BBC Radio 3’s Record Review, Arthur Johnson, asking...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 6/1999

Vivaldi Sacred Works Vol 9

A cycle of the complete sacred works of a busy composer like Vivaldi is bound to include some of those...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2003

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