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Furtwängler conducts Mozart

Furtwangler's Mozart was wonderfully various in temperament and intent, protean in a way that the Mozart of even the best...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/1991

Rimsky-Korsakov Orchestral Suites

Possibly it's only imagination on my part, but these resplendent Rimsky scores now seem to have their colours even more...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 8/1984

Britten Suites for Cello

Pieter Wispelwey’s deeply considered relationship with Britten’s cello suites is evident from the perceptive notes he provides for this‚ his...

Reviewed in issue 1/2002

Vivica Genaux - Arias

Vivica Genaux has excellent technical grounding in singing Baroque opera; Bernard Labadie's Canadian chamber orchestra Les Violons du Roy play...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2006

Bax Choral Works

Enchanted Summer is an upbeat to the series of orchestral tone-poems that made Bax's reputation (it precedes the earliest of...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 10/1989

The Sorceress Original Soundtrack

Described as ''A Handel Celebration'', this pasticcio, with items drawn from no fewer than eight of the operas, was devised...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/1994

Vivaldi String Sonatas, Vol.2

This new issue follows a recent Chandos release of Vivaldi's sonatas for one and two violins played by some or...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 6/1991

R. Strauss: Tone Poems

Here is the umpteenth recent recording of Zarathustra and one can only ask: has Semyon Bychkov anything special to tell...

Reviewed in issue 5/1991

Verdi Aida

This is certainly a version of Aida employing big-scale voices, but if you're to enjoy them you have to put...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1989

Mendelssohn Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2

I enjoyed Kallichstein most in the slow movements of the two concertos. Both are judiciously timed, with the Andante of...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 3/1989

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