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Luzzaschi: Madrigals

As IF explained in his review of the LP, the music on this recording was at one time a closely-guarded...

Reviewed in issue 7/1985

Mozart Piano Sonatas, Vol. 5

All four sonatas on Uchida's new disc come from the 1774–5 set of six which were the first the 18-year-old...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1988

Mansurian String Quartets Nos 1 and 2;Testament

Since settling in Armenia in 1947 at the age of eight (he was born in Lebanon), Tigran Mansurian has been...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 5/2006

R. Strauss Tome Poems

There is no shortage of good recordings of Also sprach Zarathustra a work that needs CD to do its orchestration...

Reviewed in issue 4/1990

Bach Instruments and Instrumentation in the Music of J S Bach

Of the 27 instruments used in this ‘mixed­media’ programme‚ six are held by the Musical Instrument Museum of Leipzig University....

Reviewed in issue 13/2002

Bel Canto Arias

‘A voice distinguished, among other qualities, by its rarity’. Michael Parouty, in Hugh Graham’s elegant translation, is writing, at the...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 4/2004

Paganini Studies

The surprise element in this formidable programme is provided by Ignaz Friedman. And as befits the work of a legendary...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 8/1992

New Year's Eve Concert 1992

I found this a distressing experience. Strauss's pieces can have seldom been played with such virtuosity, even by the same...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1993

Mozart: Piano Works

That Claudio Arrau, 87 this year, still has plenty to tell us about Mozart is not in doubt. What you...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 1/1990

Works by Roosenschoon

The South African composer Hans Roosenschoon, now in his mid-thirties, is showing encouraging signs of reacting constructively to several very...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 6/1986

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