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Verdi La Traviata

Circumstances alter cases, as Barrie's Admirable Crichton is fond of saying: ''the same man might not be master'', or, in...

Reviewed in issue 2/1995

(A) Year at King's

The year of the title is presumably liturgical rather than historical, and each of the musical works slots clearly enough...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 9/2010

Frankel Chamber Works

An important and rewarding issue. Although four of the symphonies are available and two more, Nos. 4 and 6, have...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 3/1997

Satie Orchestral Works

The only piece of continuous music in this collection that plays for more than about three minutes is the Third...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 8/1989

Dvorák Orchestral Works

As I expected after his previous recordings, both for Supraphon and for Chandos, Jiri Belohlavek directs the Czech Philharmonic in...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/1992

Sanz Guitar Works

The five-course baroque guitar was smaller than today’s instrument and had a variety of re-entrant tunings, in all of which...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 8/1996

Stokowski conducts French Music

Those readers who saw Stokowski conduct will remember how he would mount the podium, acknowledge audience applause, and then turn...

Reviewed in issue 2/1994

Music for Trumpet and Strings

It would be difficult to praise the playing of Stephen Burns too highly. He uses a rotary piccolo trumpet in...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/1985

Widor Organ Works

Though agog to hear the favourite Fifth Symphony on the Westminster Cathedral organ, I must admit that I lost a...

Reviewed in issue 8/1986

Schubert Piano Sonatas

When Schubert's C major Piano Sonata, D840 was first published in 1861, it was given the title Relique in the...

Reviewed in issue 1/1995

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