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Summer Sketches - Swedish Piano Music Vol II

Of the six composers included here only one or two are likely to be familiar to non-Swedish audiences. At a...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 1/2003

Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro

Peter Diamand has been the eminence grise behind both Barenboim's recordings of this opera. He was in charge of the...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1991

Mendelssohn String Quartets

From Szymanowski to Mendelssohn is no small step. Coming to this after the Carmina Quartet's Szymanowski disc (see review on...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 3/1992

Vivaldi Violin Concertos

The 12 violin concertos which make up La cetra were published in Amsterdam in 1727 as Vivaldi's Op. 9. They...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 8/1993

Weber Chamber Music for Clarinet

Several versions of Weber's Clarinet Quintet exist on records, but the other two works listed above are rarer; and they...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 9/1985

Virgil Thomson: Film Music

Virgil Thomson's homely music has never made much of an impact outside the States and on its first release in...

Reviewed in issue 12/1988

Rostropovich The Moscow Recordings

“Rostropovich – The Russian Years” is the musical equivalent of a National Lottery windfall. Had anyone told me, five or...

Reviewed in issue 5/1997

Music from the Eton Choirbook

Astonishingly, this is the only recording currently available of music from that most precious of early Tudor sources, the Eton...

Reviewed in issue 11/1989

In the name of Bach

The most recent of Florilegium’s discs is a Bach family anthology featuring three members of the clan whose music seldom...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 7/1996

Tancredi Pasero (1893-1983) - III

In reviewing the two earlier Preiser Paseros (6/90 and 4/95), JBS has expatiated on the merits of a bass who...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1997

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