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Mozart Piano Concerto No 20
Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra | Howard Griffiths | Michael Rische
Writing to his father in 1785 Mozart tells of his new Piano Concerto K466 (and 467), complete with cadenzas, saying...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/2009
Franchomme Cello Virtuoso
Ensemble Explorations | Lidewij Scheifes | Roel Dieltiens
If you’re interested in the byways of romantic music or in the solo cello repertoire, it is well worth investigating...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 4/1997
RADECKE Symphony Op 50
Kaspar Zehnder | Sinfonie Orchester Biel Solothurn
With his high collars and long flowing hair, the Robert Radecke who gazes out from the back of the booklet...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2016
SULLIVAN On Shore and Sea
Recordings of Sullivan’s choral music are a rare commodity these days, and even rarer still are performances of these two...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 12/2014
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS A Cambridge Mass
That a large-scale work for chorus, orchestra and soloists by Vaughan Williams should only have received its world premiere performance...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2014
LISZT 'Venezia e Napoli’
Costantino Catena has performed the complete piano music of Liszt – a gargantuan task – and his present two-CD album...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 03/2015
WF BACH Harpsichord Concertos
Bach’s eldest son, for whom the weight of his father’s inheritance – emotionally and otherwise – contributed to his dispersing...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 01/2016
Stainer The Crucifixion
Andrew Lucas | David Wilson-Johnson | John Scott | Maldwyn Davies | St Paul's Cathedral Choir
Victorian values being nowadays respected more highly than they were in my youth, Stainer's Crucifixion may well find appreciative listeners...
Reviewed in issue 10/1991
Kraus Ballet Music
Petter Sundkvist | Swedish Chamber Orchestra
Whatever the putative business of the two Pantomimes on this disc of Joseph Martin Kraus’s theatre music, they take the...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2007
BEETHOVEN String Quartets Nos 1 - 3 (Eyblet Quartet)
It’s easy to forget that when Beethoven’s Op 18 quartets appeared in 1801 Haydn had yet to publish his own...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2018
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