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Bruch/Zemlinsky Piano Trios

Zemlinsky, at 24, the Brahms imitator: Max Bruch, at 70, the Schumann imitator. Zemlinsky in 1895 was writing music at...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 4/1992

Dyson Orchestral Works

First heard in 1937, Dyson’s Symphony in G is the most ambitious of his orchestral works, so a fine new...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/2005

Vaughan Williams Chamber Works

Vaughan Williams's chamber music has been generally neglected. The impression one has gathered from musicians is that it is respected...

Reviewed in issue 9/1989

Byrd Sacred Choral Music

The 450th anniversary of the birth of William Byrd was bound to produce a spate of commemorative recordings, not least...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 7/1993

Giordano Madame Sans Gene

After Andrea Chenier, Fedora and Siberia, Madame Sans-Gene will be a considerable surprise to Giordano’s admirers, perhaps even to his...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 7/1996

Haydn Chamber Music for Wind and Strings

The Linos Ensemble’s highly polished, enthusiastic performances in this programme of Haydn’s chamber music for wind instruments and strings generate...

Reviewed in issue 9/1996

Haydn Symphonies, Vol. 4

With three versions now in the catalogue (and a fourth, from Hogwood, in the pipeline), Haydn's fetching programmatic trilogy has...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/1991

Foulds Keltic Suite; Holiday Sketches

John Foulds was one of the mystery men among British composers. Born in 1880, he died in 1939 having written...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/2010

Handel Partenope

Partenope is crammed with outstanding arias varying in musical styles and techniques but it is also a beautifully crafted drama...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 5/2010

(The) Grand Organ of York Minster

Volume 15 of Regent’s splendid English Cathedral Series takes us to York and the superb artistry of John Scott Whiteley,...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 2/2009

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