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Strauss Salomé

Götz Friedrich’s Vienna studio film of Strauss’s spooky study of necrophiliac lust (and much else) created quite a stir when...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 10/2007

Rachmaninov Etudes tableaux

A direct comparison between Ian Hobson and Ashkenazy in the Op. 39 studies is by no means entirely one-sided. This...

Reviewed in issue 1/1990

Rachmaninov - Piano Works

Listening to this latest release in John Lill’s traversal of Rachmaninov’s piano music, I was reminded of BM’s review of...

Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 3/1999

Dvorák String Quartets

In my review of the Hagen Quartet's Dvorak American on DG, I advised CD buyers who sought one authoritative version...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 7/1987

Settings from A. E. Housman's 'A Shropshire Lad'

This recording of Housman songs by four composers was one of Meridian's big successes when it was first issued on...

Reviewed in issue 11/1990

Gregorian Chant

Here is a fine recording of the Mass for the Octave of the Nativity of the Virgin and the First...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 6/2006

Mozart Trios for Bassethorns

Mozart wrote his basset-horn trios some time in the middle or late 1780s; his widow had the manuscripts, but they...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 4/1986

Amy Dickson - Smile

Amy Dickson is a player with a difference – an artist who may well appeal to listeners who have virtually...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 8/2008

Music for Mona Lisa

Right from the start, the origin and nature of the most famous smile in Western art have been a matter...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/1998

Vaughan Williams Flos campi; Suite

When this recording was last issued on LP, I greeted it with some reservation, saying that what we needed was...

Reviewed in issue 11/1985

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