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Mozart Così fan tutte (excerpts)

These highlights, which I refer to in my Glyndebourne collection (see page 38), have often been held up as a...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1994

Beethoven; Mozart Quintets for Piano & Wind Instruments

The relative merits of the Kontarsky and Previn perfomances have been adequately and accurately described by JOC and SP respectively....

Reviewed in issue 4/1986

Saint-Saëns Samson et Dalila

One distinguished German critic claimed this was the finest performance in the 40 years’ existence of the Bregenz Festival and,...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1996

Mozart/Schubert Piano Works for Four Hands

Mozart and Schubert, the two great geniuses whose lives were troubled and short: they make a good pair here, although...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 7/1993

Rawsthorne Practical Cats

David Lloyd-Jones has already conducted two Rawsthorne CDs for Naxos. This disc adds three works that are at the core...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 7/2008

Haydn Symphonies

Simon Rattle's first recorded reconnaissance into eighteenth-century symphonic repertoire imaginatively juxtaposes two of Haydn's most eccentrically original works from the...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 4/1992

Knussen Horn concerto

‘Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.’ So Stravinsky is supposed to have remarked...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 4/2004

Frederica von Stade sings Monteverdi and Cavalli

The orchestral effects, beautifully recorded, are of such continuous appeal and inventiveness in this mellifluous collection of songs and arias...

Reviewed in issue 9/1985

Varèse Complete Works, Vol 2

This is the second issue in Kent Nagano’s Varese series for Erato, and includes everything absent from the first disc...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 2/1997

Sviatoslav Richter - Piano Recital

Now that Arrau, Serkin and Kempff are gone, the great Russian pianist Sviatoslav Richter has suddenly become a grand old...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 4/1992

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