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Schubert & Haydn String Quartets

Included here are a pleasant performance and a good one, both well recorded. The 'pleasant' reading is the Schubert: beautifully...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 5/1992

Mathias Lux Aeterna

This is a transfer to CD of a recording issued nearly five years ago, just after Lux aeterna had had...

Reviewed in issue 11/1989

Strauss, R Elektra (DVD)

I enjoyed, if that is the right word for Elektra’s gruesome drama, this performance of Strauss’s opera (taken from the...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/2000

Haydn: String Quartets

The Mosaiques Quartet, who use period instruments, are new to me, though the cellist, Christophe Coin, has made several appearances...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 2/1990

Albinoni Oboe Concerti

Albinoni's oboe concertos may not have been the very first of their kind to be written—Vivaldi could have beaten him...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 3/1990

Organ Fireworks, Vol. 8

East Asia is rapidly becoming an organ enthusiast’s paradise. There are fascinating old instruments in the Philippine Islands, glorious concert-hall...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 6/1998

(The) Violin of the Century

Was there ever a violinist so often filmed as Menuhin? The numerous film clips and still photographs of Menuhin playing...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 1/2001

Krenek Piano Pieces

A year after his death, Krenek's music is being revived. I enthusiastically welcomed Geoffrey Douglas Madge's first two volumes of...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 4/1993

Mahler Symphony No 8

From the moment that Mahler hurls down that massive E flat major chord on the organ, one thing must be...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 1/1992

Spontini La Vestale

That this work is the essential link between Gluck and Berlioz, and also pre-echoes late Rossini and Bellini, is even...

Reviewed in issue 12/1995

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