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Aperitif - A French Collection

Eating meals in reverse is supposed to be bad for the digestion. I therefore approached this follow-up to Bezaly’s previous...

Reviewed by rnichols in issue: 5/2003

Beethoven String Trios Vol. I

The first CD volume of the Cummings Trio's complete Beethoven set includes one trio not issued on LP before: the...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 9/1987

Janácek/Kodály Choral Works

Two of the above recordings of the Glagolitic Mass date, it can be seen, from the mid-1960s, when as part...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1994

Villa-Lobos Piano Works

Usefully restoring to the catalogue a number of very agreeable short pieces currently missing from it, this CD is devoted...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 2/1995

Lydia Mordkovitch

Here is a fascinating programme of out-of-the-way Russian repertoire. Kabalevsky’s Improvisation, like so much of his work, is a cocktail...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 9/2009

Verdi La Traviata at Covent Garden

As I wholly concur with RTF's complimentary view of the musical side of this staging (reviewed last month), except for...

Reviewed in issue 9/1995

Beethoven Serenade; Mozart Flute Quartets

“The flute is not an instrument which has a good moral effect; it is too exciting,” said Aristotle. Such a...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 1/2007

Gerhard Chamber Works

Whether or not there is any basis for astrology, as Roberto Gerhard firmly believed, it is remarkably apt that his...

Reviewed in issue 1/1998

French Orchestral Works

Recently, at a live performance, I thought Bizet's youthful Symphony dragged a bit and felt the musical ideas to be...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 10/1986

Björling & Schymberg sing Puccini & Gounod

Vintage Bjorling here. It is true that the operas represented are ones that Bjorling recorded complete (Romeo et Juliette from...

Reviewed in issue 3/1992

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