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Bruch; Mendelssohn Violin Concertos

No sooner have we had a new EMI version of the well-tried coupling of the Grieg and Schumann piano concertos...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/2004

Dussek Keyboard Sonatas Volume 2

The second volume in Andreas Staier’s Dussek series (Vol. 1 was reviewed in February 1995) includes two of the last...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 7/1996

Beethoven Orchestral Works

Paul van Kempen won a kind of phonographic immortality when he conducted for Kempff in his early 1950s DG Berlin...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/1994

Tchaikovsky The Sleeping Beauty

As recently as the April issue I was reviewing an excellent Naxos recording by the Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra (Kosice)...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 7/1993

Blow the Wind Southerly

The recitals given by Kathleen Ferrier and Bruno Walter at the Edinburgh Festival of 1952, broadcast and subsequently transfered to...

Reviewed in issue 6/1988

Bach Flute Sonatas

Surprisingly, these two discs have one thing more in common than composer and label. Jonathan Manson, looking for a filler...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 13/2006

Britten Canticles; Folksongs

Britten’s five Canticles give a fair summary of his changes in style over the years‚ each distilling the manner of...

Reviewed in issue 13/2002

Vivaldi Ercole

Who would have thought, 10 years ago, that we would ever be watching DVDs of Vivaldi operas? Here it is...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2007

Schumann Requiems

Schumann's Requiem only intermittently lives up to the promise of its beautiful dark D flat opening, but it should certainly...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 9/1987

Janácek The Diary of one who disappeared

Here is a highly interesting enterprise, for which much credit is due to Supraphon: a record that is its own...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 2/1996

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