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Bizet The Pearlfishers

If you don't know the opera, you come away from this recording with a head full of tunes, if you...

Reviewed in issue 1/1990

Con Chitarrone

Just as composers of the Florentine Academy sought to recapture the supposed power and directness of ancient Greek music in...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 5/2011

Schubert Piano Sonatas

There can't be many less showy pianists on today's concert scene than Andras Schiff. That very refusal to draw attention...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 10/1994

Ockeghem Missa L'homme armé; Missa Sine Nomine

The Clerks’ Group is nearing the end of its complete survey of Ockeghem’s sacred music. This volume adds two Masses...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 8/2000

Martinu Choral Works

This is one of those sets which at a casual glance gives the impression of being multi-disc, the text and...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 12/1992

Schubert Piano Sonatas, D664 & D960

In the first movement of the B flat Sonata Buchbinder lifts us impressively into the unexpected dark regions of the...

Reviewed in issue 9/1989

Prelude, Fnugg and Riffs

More fun to play than to listen to is one of the hoariest clichés about symphonic wind band music. Whether...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 5/2008

Hindemith; Respighi; Schmitt Orchestral Works

It is good to welcome a Turkish orchestra as strong and refined as the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic. It is apt...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/2010

Szymanowski Harnasie;Mandragora;Etude for Orchestra

The good news is that Naxos are reissuing a number of reliable Szymanowski performances at very tempting prices. But their...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 10/1997

Berkeley Chamber Works

The Naxos series of chamber music by Lennox Berkeley here offers an attractive group of works, three from early in...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/2010

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