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Review of Caldini Fade Control

Caldini Fade Control

Despite its rehabilitation in the 20th century, the recorder has still to establish itself as a contemporary instrument, though its...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 6/2008

Review of Stanford Vocal & Orchestral Works

Stanford Vocal & Orchestral Works

Stanford was undoubtedly one of music's great teachers: I was brought up in no doubt about this, two of my...

Reviewed in issue 5/1987

Review of Purcell Sonatas of Three Parts

Purcell Sonatas of Three Parts

Those weaned on Purcell’s great Fantasias of 1680, with their superlative juxtaposing of archaic longings and innovative yearnings, might all...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 4/1996

Review of Schubert String Quartets Nos 13 and 14

Schubert String Quartets Nos 13 and 14

It is perhaps inevitable that in today’s crowded CD market-place some artists never quite achieve the catalogue recognition they deserve....

Reviewed in issue 8/1997

Review of Handel Music for the Carmelite Vespers

Handel Music for the Carmelite Vespers

When Handel was in Rome during 1707, he was, it seems, invited by one of his aristocratic patrons to compose...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 6/1989

Review of Brahms: Lieder

Brahms: Lieder

Elly Ameling is too charming an artist and, in particular, too experienced a singer of Brahms for her not to...

Reviewed in issue 6/1991

Review of Verdi Il Trovatore

Verdi Il Trovatore

This is a set that had somehow escaped my notice until now. Becoming acquainted with it proved a pleasurable experience....

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1990

Review of Dvorák Orchestral Works

Dvorák Orchestral Works

Appearances suggest a more expensive product: the box encloses a glossy, silver-imprinted booklet with copious notes in English on the...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/1995

Review of Harpsichord Concertos of the 20th Century

Harpsichord Concertos of the 20th Century

You wouldn’t believe it, but while the booklet offers us a detailed curriculum vitae of the conductor here (who in...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 8/1996

Review of Danish Organ Works

Danish Organ Works

The music of Camillo Alphonzo Johannes Peter Carlsen (1876-1948) will appeal to devotees of French rather than German organ repertoire,...

Reviewed in issue 2/1999


 

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