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Gershwin: Orchestral Works

The selling-point of this record will presumably be the glamour of the Labeque sisters. But for me the highlight (in...

Reviewed in issue 2/1987

Holst Orchestral Works

This record, of two very early works by Holst and two late ones, the Hammersmith Prelude and Scherzo and the...

Reviewed in issue 10/1986

Winter Maometto

The Munich-based court composer Peter von Winter was 62 when he wrote his ‘melodramatic tragedy in two acts’ Maometto, first...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 13/2004

Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Julius Katchen

I grew up with, and have always loved, Katchen’s 1960s recordings of the Brahms sonatas, but for some reason I...

Reviewed in issue 10/1998

Bruckner Sacred Choral Works

What an inspiring disc this is—great music performed with burning intensity and supreme skill—and recorded (in the Great Hall of...

Reviewed in issue 1/1991

20th Century Bach

This challenging CD appears to have been put together from session tail-ends, but you may well consider it a more...

Reviewed in issue 7/1992

Invocation - Contemporary Viola Works

Familiar as lead viola in the London Symphony Orchestra and London Sinfonietta, Paul Silverthorne here dem- onstrates his credentials in...

Reviewed in issue 7/2001

Wagner (Die) Walküre

This Walküre largely fulfils – albeit with some reservations – the promising start to the Liceu’s DVD cycle offered by...

Reviewed by mscott rohan in issue: 8/2005

Scarlatti, D Keyboard Sonatas

A refreshing selection, starting with the A minor Sonata (Kk175) and its evocations of the guitar to remind us that...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 3/1989

Blow Venus & Adonis

No more apologies for this work. Historically in the shadow of Purcell’s Dido, Venus and Adonis is fast becoming a...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 9/1999

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