Ah, Dear Heart

Much fine Elizabethan and Jacobean music was inspired by specific lamentations for departed knights or 'princes of fame' as well...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/1993

Salonen Wing on Wing

‘The 13 years that Esa-Pekka Salonen has spent in Southern California have confirmed him in his view that music or,...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 7/2005

Bruckner Symphony No 5

Yet another Bruckner Fifth? Not exactly. The performance, which has its own distinction, comes with an 80-minute bonus disc of...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 5/2009

Great Pianist - Levitzki, Complete recordings Vol 1

If sheer old-fashioned charm is the ne plus ultra of musical achievement, than Mischa Levitzki (1898-1941) is a ‘great pianist’...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 3/2003

Mozart Die Zauberflöte

I have renewed my enthusiasm for the musical side of the Davis recording by hearing it on CD, where one...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1985

Schumann Symphonies Nos 1-4

Vibrant performances recorded live in Budapest. Honest, unadulterated accounts played with spirit and a nicely honed sense of ensemble. Vasary,...

Reviewed by mquinn in issue: 9/1998

Copland (The) gift to be free

This is the third volume based on the BBC Radio 3 programme Voices and is an excellent selection. Susan Chilcott,...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 11/2003

Brahms Piano Quartet

Jean-Frédéric Neuburger and the Quatuor Modigliani address Brahms’s noble and finely wrought Piano Quintet – an early masterpiece from the...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 8/2011

Mozart Concert & Opera Arias

We have had such a plethora of records of Mozart arias of late that I question the need for another...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1985

Enesco

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