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Bruckner Symphony No. 2

‘Perhaps the greatest of all recordings of the work‚ spacious‚ involved‚ profoundly human’: so wrote Richard Osborne in 1994‚ referring...

Reviewed in issue 12/2001

English Orchestral Songs

The delightful, and touching, collaboration (if that is the word for it) of Gurney and Finzi is a prime attraction...

Reviewed in issue 6/1999

Auber Gustave III

Auber has become one of the forgotten men of music. Textbooks credit him with being the initiator of the Grand...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 9/1993

Verdi Un ballo in maschera

This was the last of Toscanini's opera recordings, made from two broadcasts in January 1954 in New York's Carnegie Hall....

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1991

Beethoven Piano Sonatas

It was only recently, when I was listening to selected comparisons for a review of Stephen Kovacevich’s fine new account...

Reviewed in issue 2/1996

Trumpet Concertos

This collection is entitled ''Favourite Trumpet Concertos'', which is a little misleading, for although the Haydn and Hummel works are...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/1990

Hummel Viola & Cello Sonatas

Between any composer's Op. 5 and his Op. 104 there is likely to be, and indeed should be, a considerable...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 6/1989

Mendelssohn Symphonies

Here at last is a modern digital version of this favourite coupling that I can recommend almost without reservation. There...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/1993

Wagner, S (Die) Heilege Linde, Op 15

The plot of Die heilige Linde defies summary, or even, it appears, synopsis. Though the leading Siegfried Wagner scholar Peter...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 5/2004

Handel Solo Cantatas

The more one hears music from the four years Handel spent in Italy in his early twenties – and there...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2008

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