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Sor Guitar Works

Sor packed a great deal into his 61 years of life: musical studies at Montserrat, army service, politically enforced exile,...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 7/1987

Verdi I Lombardi

At this stage of his career it is good to hear Pavarotti in a new role on disc, even if...

Reviewed in issue 10/1997

Elgar Enigma Variations; Falstaff

The Variations and Falstaff make a good Elgar coupling, both being picturesque and illustrative as well as providing over an...

Reviewed in issue 9/1987

Suppé Overtures

I was brought up on the Halle's Viennese concerts, and it provides a welcome exercise in nostalgia to listen to...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 9/1992

Boccherini & Verdi: String Quartets

Verdi, who always maintained that the proper function of the Italian composer was to write vocal music, produced only one...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 11/1986

Smetana/Dvorák String Quartets

Choosing between the Alban Berg and Orlando discs depends on whether it's the Dvorak or the Smetana that interests you...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 3/1992

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Original Soundtrack

Mad World was the first film to be presented in the modified single-lens version of Cinerama and remains one of...

Reviewed in issue 1/1998

Rosa Ponselle Opera & Song Recital

There are those who say that once they had heard Ponselle in the flesh they never wanted to hear her...

Reviewed in issue 10/1989

Schoeck Penthesilea

Schoeck's one-act opera, Penthesilea is an astonishing and masterly score. It seems barely credible that a work so gripping in...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 3/1995

Motets of the 17th Century

On the strength of its title alone, this disc has much to recommend it: seventeenth-century music from the 'regions' habitually...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/1993

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