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Haydn Scottish and Welsh Songs, Vol 3

Some readers will already have Vols 1 and 2 on their shelves – the first on a single CD, the...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 4/2007

Méhul Stratonice

Those who revere Donald Francis Tovey’s writings as almost the musical equivalent of Holy Writ will remember that the sage...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 9/1996

Weill/Berg Concertos

The Berlin Requiem is one of the major casualties of Weill's peripatetic life in the early 1930s. The autograph score...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 8/1993

Handel Acis and Galatea

There is something peculiarly elusive about a work that embodies the spirit of two great composers but not the whole...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 12/1992

Chopin Piano Concerto No 2; Krakowiak

It is agreeable to have a recording by Bella Davidovich of Chopin's Concerto No. 1 (known as No. 2) to...

Reviewed in issue 8/1983

Famous Women Organists

One of my organ tutors was a woman, the majority of my own organ pupils were women, and having been...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 11/1999

Schoenberg; Sibelius String Quartets

Two D minor string quartets composed within four years of one another (Schoenberg’s in 1905, Sibelius’s in 1909) make for...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 2/2011

Contemporary Danish Music

The attraction of this recital of some of the later works from three of Denmark’s older generation of composers is...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 8/1996

Beloved Clara

With her customary initiative, Lucy Parham commissioned the music journalist (now also novelist) Jessica Duchen to compile a programme of...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 8/2007

Schubert Complete Lieder, Vol.12

''The Young Schubert'' is the subtitle in this latest addition to the Schubert Edition. That inevitably means that a few...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1992

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