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Boccherini Piano Quintets

Boccherini wrote his dozen piano quintets late in life, at the end of the 1790s; they are probably the finest...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 4/1997

John Jeffreys Who is at my Window-24 Tenor Songs

The list of compositions printed in the booklet shows John Jeffreys to be the writer of a large number of...

Reviewed in issue 9/1997

Elgar Choral Works

Here are two very important recordings for Elgarians and students of English music. Firstly, they close the gaps in the...

Reviewed in issue 3/1987

Mozart Concert Arias for Tenor

Circumstances of various kinds dictated that the vast majority of Mozart’s independent arias would be composed for the soprano voice,...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 6/2003

On Wings of Song

Ameling, in a note to this record, points out that this is a ''programme of songs you have heard me...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1989

Bach Solo Violin Works for Guitar

The compass of the guitar is similar to that of the cello and, though one octave lower, that of the...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 9/1989

R.Strauss Lieder

Over a period of 70 years Strauss wrote songs that are marvellously grateful for the soprano voice. Edith Wiens is...

Reviewed in issue 7/1996

Forgotten Provence

Here is a true beakerful of the warm south: four centuries of song from herb-scented Provence, songs of love, songs...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 3/1996

Britten Music for Strings

Very enjoyable. The teenage tunes in the Simple Symphony and the extraordinary range of invention in the Variations, written ten...

Reviewed in issue 8/1985

Grieg & Schumann Piano concertos

It would surely have been kinder to have let Peter Katin's Grieg and Tchaikovsky rest in peace. In neither concerto...

Reviewed in issue 11/1989

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