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Bach: Goldberg Variations

This is the third and most recent recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations to have been made by Gustav Leonhardt (the...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 11/1990

Telemann Paris Quartets, Vol 3

Florilegium here complete their cycle of Telemann’s ‘Paris’ Quartets – actually a set of six quartet sonatas composed in Hamburg...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 4/2006

Messiaen Quatuor pour la fin du Temps

At the beginning of his quartet’s third movement, Messiaen not only instructs the clarinettist to play “expressively and sadly” but...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 1/2009

Tavener Eternity's Sunrise

The subtitle of John Tavener’s Petra is ‘a ritual dream’; much of his music is dream-like and ritualized, the music...

Reviewed in issue 5/1999

Mozart Così fan tutte

It seems that Cosi fan tutte is EMI's lucky opera. The recordings by Karajan, so recently reissued and given an...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1983

Great European Organs, No.28

Recordings of the Blackburn Cathedral organ and of David M. Patrick were among the early successes for Priory Records and...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 5/1993

(The) Russian Opera Album

Kowalski’s remarkable voice has proved adaptable to many demands‚ and they are certainly varied here – Chloe (duetting with Olga...

Reviewed in issue 9/2002

Mozart - (The) Supreme Decorator

Skill in the art of embellishment was a prime requisite for any Baroque or Classical singer. Quoting the treatise by...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2005

Schubertiana

It must have seemed a good idea at a Schwann Musica Mundi planning session: ''Let's put together a disc of...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 9/1990

Let the bright Seraphim

I gave high praise to the LP and as usual the CD has that extra indefinable degree of presence and...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 1/1986

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