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Symphonic Spectacular

Those who enjoy orchestral lollipops and spectacular sound surely could not do much better than this. Perhaps Chabrier's Espana has...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/1989

Stanford Requiem

It is most moving to hear this and to reflect that for the best part of a century – the...

Reviewed in issue 7/1997

Gombert Missa Quam pulchra es

Pulchra es is the third of Gombert's 10 surviving Masses to be recorded for CD, and it does no more...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2006

Mozart Don Giovanni

It’s an experiment I have not tried, but I fancy that if one were to play this Furtwängler Salzburg performance...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/2005

Salieri Overtures and Incidental Music

Poor Antonio Salieri (1750-1825). Once he was a hugely influential musical figure in Vienna, director of Italian Opera at the...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 6/2010

Handel Water Music

In what order (and where) the three Water Music suites were played, what movements they contained (and what their titles...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 9/1986

Mozart Piano Concertos, Vol. 1

Edwin Fischer, writing in 1929, said that it was Busoni and Richard Strauss who “first proclaimed to our generation the...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 7/1998

Prokofiev Piano Sonatas

Yefim Bronfman follows his impressive earlier volumes of Prokofiev piano sonatas (Nos. 7 and 8 – 2/89 and Nos. 1,...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 10/1996

Janácek Jenufa

It is a pleasure to be able to welcome the first of Decca's Janacek opera cycle under Sir Charles Mackerras...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1985

Prokofiev Orchestral Works

In its LP format, Chandos accommodated the densely-written Second Symphony on one side, and although the recording had no lack...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 9/1985

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