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Brahms arr Joachim Hungarian Dances; Joachim Variations

Twenty-one Hungarian Dances straight off, all in duple metre, doesn’t perhaps make the best programme; you may find, as I...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 8/2008

(The) Paris Connection

You can tell a lot about Nicolas Bacri’s Im Volkston from the performing directions – ruvido (rough), entusiastico, con bravura,...

Reviewed by rnichols in issue: 9/2003

(Le) Grazie veneziane

The four large Venetian orphanages for girls are best remembered in musical history for Vivaldi’s long association with the Ospedale...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 2/2009

Chausson; Saint-Saëns; Ysaÿe Violin Works

The 19th century saw some famous collaborations between composer and violinist, and this programme neatly brings together two of them....

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 10/2010

Messiaen Saint-François d'Assise - tableaux Nos 3,6-8

It may be paradoxical, but it’s a good general rule that, the less theatrical an opera, the more a recording...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 1/2001

Haydn Symphonies Nos 45,48 and 102

Three substantial symphonies, sturdily performed and lucidly recorded, for under a fiver almost disarms criticism. At the rate they're going...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 9/1991

Verdi Aida

As is his wont‚ Harnoncourt goes his own way. This is not an Aida to satisfy those used to conventional...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/2001

Hampton Court Palace Chapel Choir sings English music

A record produced by an enthusiast is always welcome; and Gordon Reynolds has devised a particularly varied programme which makes...

Reviewed in issue 5/1986

Bach Organ Works

Following his wonderful recording of Bach's most intimate organ pieces (the six Sonatas, BWV525–30 on CDA66390, 11/90), Christopher Herrick has...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 4/1991

Tchaikovsky Symphonies Nos 4-6

Of the three last Tchaikovsky symphonies Klemperer was, perhaps surprisingly, most at home in the Fifth and least convincing in...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 5/1985

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