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Martinu Mirandolina

Carlo Goldoni’s La Locandiera (1753) is one of the great classic Italian comedies. It seems strange that no major Italian...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 10/2004

Barenboim Live at la Scala

Remarkably, this is the first live instrumental recital recorded at La Scala. Purely as a souvenir d’occasion, therefore, the disc...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 1/2008

La Rue Missa de Sancta Cruce; Quadris Lamentations

The Clerks’ Group have an established practice of presenting single-disc anthologies alongside a major multi-disc project. This time Pierre de...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 7/2003

Violin Concertos at the Court of Weimar

The idea behind this recording, that of assembling concertos which, to a greater or lesser extent probably provided Bach with...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 2/1989

Apollo's Banquet

Described in the booklet as “a 17th-century Jam Session”, “Apollo’s Banquet” explores the wonderful repertoire of English ballads and country...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 9/1998

Rachmaninov Symphony No. 2

Rattle as Principal Guest Conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic here makes his first recording with that orchestra, and the...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/1984

Austin; Bainton; Bowen British Symphonic Collection, Vol 10

With first-rate collections of piano music and chamber works already adorning the catalogue, the York Bowen mini-revival continues apace with...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2002

Penguin Cafe Orchestra - (A) History

The Penguin Café Orchestra was the brainchild of the English freelance producer and arranger Simon Jeffes. The booklet text of...

Reviewed in issue 5/2002

Previn Irma La Douce - film score

These two vintage Previn scores were released in a prime period for the United Artists film company who, in the...

Reviewed in issue 12/1998

Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 3

These performances were taken live from the Royal Festival Hall in 1967. And here, the klavier-tiger storms of Gilels’s first...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/2011

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