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Elgar/Britten Cello Works-Rostropovich

In the case of the Britten Cello Symphony, comparisons will naturally be drawn with the now-legendary commercial recording Rostropovich and...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 3/1998

Toscanini & the NYPSO 1926-36

Almost every non-vocal classical record collection in the 1930s included some of Toscanini's recordings with the Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra of...

Reviewed in issue 3/1990

Franck (The) Major Piano Works

Sergio Fiorentino’s journey from a deft if sometimes slipshod virtuoso to a great artist, while largely ignored in his native...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2005

Milhaud Vocal Works

We may be grateful for the riches that the record companies are giving us in Milhaud's centenary year in the...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 3/1993

Works for Clarinet & Piano

There is clearly no shortage of excellent young clarinettists, as the three listed above demonstrate. Sharon Kam, winner of the...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 2/1997

Mendelssohn Elijah

This is a sound, middle-of-the-road performance, without frills, that fills a gap in the super-budget lists. Taken from a live...

Reviewed in issue 1/1998

London Concertante plays Mendelssohn & Schubert

The 14-year-old Mendelssohn’s ambitious, extraordinarily inventive Concerto (heard here in its original chamber guise) starts promisingly, but tensions are apt...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 6/1998

Nyman The Piano Concerto & Where the Bee Dances

This isn’t the best recording of The Piano Concerto. Despite the fact that, for me at least, John Lenehan has...

Reviewed by rthomas in issue: 10/1998

Sigismondo d'India Solo Vocal Music

In the preface to his Musiche da cantar solo of 1609, Sigismondo d'India noted with endearing frankness that in the...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 4/1993

Weill Symphonies Nos 1 and 2; Suite - Lady in the Dark

Weill’s Symphony No 2 is one of his most important works but it is not music calculated to cheer one...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 9/2005

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