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Beethoven Violin Concerto

Performances of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto tend to fall into one of two interpretative camps, the reverential, or “Olympian”, and the...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 4/2008

Milhaud Jazz Works

For his account of La creation du monde Ian Hobson chooses the original chamber version of the score. It has...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 5/1988

Bruckner Sacred Choral Works

''What seraphic music. It must be Bruckner'', remarked a friend who entered the room as I was playing this recording....

Reviewed in issue 9/1988

Brahms; Dvorak Chamber Works

An excellently-chosen coupling this, not only as a reminder of the warm regard, both musical and personal, shared by Brahms...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 2/2003

Equinox

I first made the acquaintance of Abigail James’s playing on Delphian’s superb disc of Edward McGuire’s chamber music (A/06), and...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 12/2007

Salzburg Serenades

As their clarinettist Dieter Klocker describes in his notes, there was so much casual music-making in and around Salzburg in...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 9/1990

Bach Das wohltemperirte Klavier

My enthusiasm for the original issue of Gould's performance of Book I was considerable but by the time Book 2...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 6/1989

Verdi Falstaff

A huge triumph for Glyndebourne, this. But before going on to particularise, perhaps we should tip some of our bouquets...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 5/2010

Bach Orchestral Suites

This new recording of Bach's four Orchestral Suites has many engaging qualities against which I must set one or two...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 8/1992

Bartók/Dohnányi Works for Piano and Orchestra

One might call this delightful collection “Richard Strauss in Hungary”, so obvious – and nourishing – is the German master’s...

Reviewed in issue 4/1996

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