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Mozart Piano Concertos 17 & 21

The three new CDs sound well. The DG and the Philips offer exceptional ranges of orchestral colour and perhaps on...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 12/1985

Foerster Orchestral Suites

A man of wide artistic tastes and talents, Foerster was more than once captivated by the idea of setting dramatic...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1993

Schubert Piano Trio 1

The Israel players launch into the B flat Trio in splendidly heroic style, and the spacious acoustic seems to suit...

Reviewed in issue 10/1985

Mozart Die Zauberflöte

In his well-informed insert-note, Clemens Hosingler points out that this recording can lay claim to be the first-ever of Die...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1996

Russian Vocal & Orchestral Works

An unusually cheerful Russian programme this, with plenty of colour, plenty of tunes, the warm tones of voice, harp and...

Reviewed in issue 9/1991

Beethoven Piano Sonatas, Op 10

This is young person’s Beethoven. I don’t mean that at all patronisingly – after all, this is relatively youthful, high-spirited...

Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 2/2001

R. Strauss: Orchestral Works

It is difficult to think of a better programme to form a one-record representation of Strauss's orchestral music. If also...

Reviewed in issue 3/1986

Nørgård Choral Works

As Jean Christensen makes clear in his chapter 'Lyricism with a Dramatic Nerve' in The Music of Per Norgard (Scolar...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 3/2000

Theile St Matthew Passion

Johann Theile's St Matthew Passion dates from 1673. In my original review I remarked both upon the high level of...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 6/1986

Bruckner Symphony No 0. Overture

The designation Nullte—or No. 0—for Bruckner's early D minor Symphony has perhaps brought it a certain ridicule; but it is...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 1/1990

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