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Mozart Keyboard Concertos

This record inaugurates a new series of Mozart piano concertos on period instruments. Robert Levin will be familiar to Mozartians,...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 7/1994

Nielsen Complete Piano Works

Nielsen composed for the piano on and off throughout his life. Yet these pieces can hardly be considered representative of...

Reviewed in issue 12/1987

Coates Orchestral Works

Marvellous as rediscovery of a wider range of British light orchestral composers has been, this CD makes one appreciate afresh...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 8/2005

Ponchielli La Gioconda

''Nobody could fail to be caught up in its conviction'' is what I wrote when this set was last reissued...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1988

Schoenberg String Trio; Suite for Septet

Most of the music on this disc was composed between 1925 and 1930, when Schoenberg was at his most inspired...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 6/2010

Satie Piano Works, Vol. 3

Volume 1 of Anne Queffelec's Satie series, which has such familiar pieces as the Gymnopedies and Gnossiennes, came out four...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 8/1993

Baroque Choral Works

Ashkenazy's Chopin was one of the treasures of the Decca catalogue in the 1970s, and the combining of the four...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 5/2000

Mahler Symphony No. 2

The opening page tells you what to expect – something clean, incisive and well articulated. But seismic, momentous? No, that...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 9/2007

Britten War Requiem

It is specially welcome to have historic recordings like this available in the new medium of CD. Even when Simon...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/1985

Reich The Cave

Heard and seen live, the opening of Reich’s The Cave wields immense force: Genesis XVI typed on to video screens...

Reviewed in issue 3/1996

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