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Dvorák/Smetana Orchestral Works

This is a record where I wish the filler had been placed first on the disc. That has in abundance...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 1/1990

Bach Harpsichord Concertos

Diego Fasolis’s recordings are often viscerally thrilling, occasionally veering into the throes of vulgarity. If one never quite knows how...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 12/2008

Brahms Orchestral Works

Sawallisch conducts a middle-of-the-road account of the First Symphony, in which there are some tempo fluctuations in the first movement...

Reviewed in issue 2/1992

Howells Requiem

Thrice welcome, first, as the inaugural volume of a promising series, then in the choice of a composer who probably...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 1/2000

Igor Markevitch

Much the most moving item in this wide-ranging historic collection is one that, curiously, is not even listed on the...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/2003

Wagner The Valkyrie

''I don't think The Valkyrie can be a perfect performance, although I have never been so happy as when I...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1991

Piazzolla Works arranged Violin & Piano

The cover photo tells all: a startled but beautiful young girl in a split-side dress balancing awkwardly on high heels...

Reviewed in issue 7/1999

(The) Wesleys and their Contemporaries

Hot on the heels of Jennifer Bate’s magnificent Somm disc of organ music by Samuel Wesley comes this companion volume,...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 12/2004

Give me Jesus - Negro Spirituals

The danger of too much sameness in a whole hour’s programme of spirituals is obviated by the variety of pace...

Reviewed in issue 2/1999

R. Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra & Till Eulenspiegel

No one could be more delighted than I am that recordings of the Strauss tone-poems are pouring from the recording...

Reviewed in issue 11/1990

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