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Mendelssohn Lieder, Vol.1

Mendelssohn's songs have always elicited a somewhat critical response because, elegant and effectively fashioned as they always are, they seldom...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 6/1992

Chabrier: Orchestral Works

This Compact Disc has warmth as well as the customary clarity, enabling us to enjoy the natural sounds of the...

Reviewed in issue 2/1984

Sibelius: Orchestral Works

Only last month I was reviewing Yondani Butt's account of Pelleas et Melisande coupled with Swanwhite (ASV). This new issue...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 8/1989

Ravel: Orchestral Works

It comes as something of a jolt to find this record in Decca's Historic series, for I have vivid memories...

Reviewed in issue 5/1990

Scriabin Symphony No 1

I found myself carried away by this unfamiliar work; here are melodies galore, sometime reminders of other works by other...

Reviewed in issue 3/1986

Beethoven Piano Sonatas

It is exciting to find, among the buried treasure left by this wilfully inspired pianist, an unsuspected recording of an...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/1993

Grieg; Saint-Saëns; Schumann Piano Concertos

What a good idea to add to that favourite among LP couplings Saint-Saëns’s most Bachian concerto, No 2. And the...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 5/2009

Berg; Webern String Quartets

Couplings of the Berg are now numerous and though few ensembles succeed in both works, the Prazak Quartet get closer...

Reviewed in issue 7/2001

Dvorák/Eben/Janácek Choral Works

This imaginative coupling brings together three fine pieces of Czech church music in skilled and sympathetic interpretations. Dvorak’s Mass, the...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1996

Elgar Sacred Choral Works

Elgar was the composer whose work introduced many of us to that of Christopher Robinson, and he in turn helped...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 8/2004

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