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Franck: Chamber & Instrumental Works

Franck was a very late developer who arguably only found his real voice when he was approaching 60 and had...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 7/1991

Gluck Iphigénie en Tauride

A new recording was badly needed, and I'm afraid it still is. This is one of the masterpieces of classical...

Reviewed in issue 7/1984

Bach at St Bavo's

I doubt whether anyone would dispute Haarlem's claim to possess one of the very finest organs in the world. It...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 10/1992

Schumann Paradies und die Peri

A ‘secular oratorio’ was how Schumann, then 33, summarized Das Paradies und die Peri, his first major choral work, with...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 13/1999

(The) Passion of Reason - (The) Sour Cream legacy

While not wishing in any way to mislead readers, I should start by saying, unequivocally, that “the less said about...

Reviewed in issue 9/1998

Howells/Stevens Piano Works

This is an effective, but slightly odd coupling of composers, since all the Howells is available from Margaret Fingerhut and...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 11/1996

Coates, E Orchestral Works

Fans of Eric Coates and Sir Adrian Boult are in for a field-day as Lyrita at long last restores to...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 5/2007

Tchaikovsky: Orchestral works

Ozawa's 1812 is certainly exciting and very well played. It has plenty of thrust, yet the Berlin Philharmonic strings obviously...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 1/1986

Chopin Preludes 1-24 (orch Francaix)

Serge Nigg and Michel Philippot are French composers of the Boulez generation who, these recent string quartets suggest, are guilty...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 9/1989

Mozart: Wind Concertos

An excellent idea to package together one each of the concertos Mozart wrote for the most likely wind soloists of...

Reviewed in issue 9/1985

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