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Chopin: Piano works

A main point about Arrau's last recording of Chopin's Ballades (Philips 6768 354, 7/83—part of a nine-LP set) was the...

Reviewed in issue 9/1985

Adelina Patti

This is a major addition to the Pearl catalogue and to any private collection of great singers on CD. EMI...

Reviewed in issue 4/1990

Dvorak The Spectre's Bride

Commissioned for Birmingham in 1885, The spectre's bride had a huge success there with an audience who (according to The...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 7/1993

Addinsell British Light Music

Universally known for the Warsaw Concerto from the wartime film Dangerous Moonlight, Richard Addinsell composed a good deal else for...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 4/1995

Tan Dun Orchestral Works

Exit Edgar Varese, enter Tan Dun—domiciled in the United States since 1986 but, according to annotator Paul Griffiths, known even...

Reviewed in issue 4/1994

Sauguet Symphony No. 1

Almost as productive as his friend Darius Milhaud, Henri Sauguet (1901-89) is poorly represented on the Gramophone Database;...

Reviewed in issue 12/1996

Adams/Lang Wind Music

The rocky suspension of John Adams's 'Fast machine' (as refurbished for wind band by Lawrence T. Odorn) makes for a...

Reviewed in issue 10/1995

Bach Cantatas

Three of Bach's Leipzig church cantatas form a characteristically well thought-out programme from the French gamba player, cellist and director,...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 2/1995

Schubert Winterreise

This rather uninvolving, yet far from expressionless, Winterreise will not be to everyone's taste although it is excellently recorded in...

Reviewed in issue 9/1985

Hoddinott Songs

If the current catalogue is representative‚ the record companies have not been especially generous in regard to this prolific and...

Reviewed in issue 13/2002

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