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Bruckner Symphony No.8

This live Bruckner Eighth performed in Dresden in September 2009 under the direction of Christian Thielemann is of little more...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 13/2010

Handel Ariodante

Many Handelians, I imagine, will already have a recording of Ariodante, either the original LPs or the CD set issued...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 4/1996

Copland Piano Works

This is a well-chosen programme usefully representing Copland’s three major piano works, although there might have been a case for...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 2/2004

Kreisler: Violin & Piano Works, Vol.2

Little is said about Fritz Kreisler's compositions in the current Grove, and no list is given, yet they are numerous...

Reviewed in issue 11/1984

Salonen Works

More often than not‚ Esa­Pekka Salonen is dubbed ‘the conductor who composes’ – the implication being that none of his...

Reviewed in issue 10/2002

Prokofiev War and Peace

Of Prokofiev's eight operas (not counting youthful attempts he later disowned) only The love for three oranges and The fiery...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 1/1989

Rodrigo Complete Piano Works

Sony announced this set as the first complete recording of all Rodrigo’s solo piano music and I initially thought they...

Reviewed in issue 13/2002

Vivaldi Concertos

The seven concertos on this new disc from Virgin are mainly well known and well contrasted. Three of them feature...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 12/1990

Liszt Piano Works

Whereas many Liszt sonatas sound much the same, this new recording from Huseyin Sermet – a Turkish pianist in his...

Reviewed in issue 6/2001

Romantic Sonatas for Piano Duet

All three sonatas in this superbly enterprising recital explore, in radically different ways, the potential and achievement of the duet...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 7/1993

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