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Music for St Paul's

Anyone who has tried to listen to music in St Paul’s Cathedral might be forgiven for hesitating before buying a...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 11/1998

Mendelssohn-Hensel Oratorio

Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel was still only 26 when writing this little oratorio in 1831, just two years after her marriage. We're...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 3/1989

Brahms Violin Sonatas

Nothing for Brahms in earlier days was more momentous than the reception he received from Robert and Clara Schumann when...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 11/1991

Verdi Un ballo in maschera

The most cogent reason for acquiring this set is Pavarotti's Riccardo, a superior reading to that on his later performance...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1994

Second Viennese School

When orchestras (to say nothing of audiences) were still baffled by these pieces, performances of them often sounded pretty terrible:...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 11/1989

Haydn Violin Concertos

The first thing one notices about this disc is the attractive sound, rounded yet detailed; the second is that the...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 6/1994

Gubaidulina Chamber Works

The arrival of a CD of music for the Russian push-button accordion by a woman composer in her mid-sixties might...

Reviewed in issue 6/1996

Bloch/Briquet/Martin Piano Quintets

The raison d’être of this coupling is that all three composers were born in Geneva and participated (in Ernest Bloch’s...

Reviewed in issue 13/2002

Bartók String Quartets

“I was delighted to hear the Keller Quartet’s recordings... and discover the extent to which [the musicians] have entered into...

Reviewed in issue 2/1996

Dvorák Slavonic Dances

First‚ a simple test case: the Slavonic Dance No 15 in C‚ Op 72 No 7. Nikolaus Harnoncourt an the...

Reviewed in issue 7/2002

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