Wagner Tristan und Isolde

If this is, as predicted, truly the swansong of major studio recording of opera, the genre goes out on an...

Reviewed by John Allison in issue: 9/2005

Chopin Waltzes; Polonaises Nos 13 & 14

Whereas not so long ago Peter Katin gave us all 19 of Chopin's surviving waltzes in his two-disc mid-price waltz-cum-polonaise...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1995

Turnage Blood on the Floor

The title comes from a painting by Francis Bacon (whose distinctive facial features are bizarrely recalled in the composer’s own),...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 7/2006

Beethoven Piano Trios

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 3/2008

Offenbach Les contes d'Hoffmann

It would be hard to find an opera in any area of the repertory that presents so many textual problems...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/1992

Handel Rodelinda

I don't think it's going too far to say the excerpt disc of Floridante sets new standards in the presentation...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 1/1993

Mozart The Late Symphonies

This set completes Trevor Pinnock's recording of the Mozart symphonies, and completes it in style. There are some performances here...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 12/1995

Chaminade Chamber Works

Cecile Chaminade, once very popular for her salon pieces, particularly in England, has long been dismissed in serious musical circles....

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/1996

Vivaldi Concertos for Anna Maria

The presumptuous manner in which Philips proclaims this disc of Vivaldi ‘Concertos for Anna Maria’ as being a world premiere...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 6/1999

The Clarinet in Concert Vol 2

I am indebted to Michael Freyhan's erudite note for information about these pretty well unknown works. Spohr's short variations are...

Reviewed in issue 4/1990