Strauss Ariadne on Naxos

The Major-Domo tells us that Ariadne auf Naxos is set in the home of the “richest man in Vienna”. In...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 7/2011

Opera Arias in English, Vol.1

Bits and pieces from operas in translation are not everywhere approved of, but having been brought up on such things...

Reviewed in issue 4/1998

Handel Harpsichord Suites, Vol 1

The two books of harpsichord suites published during Handel’s lifetime, in 1720 and 1733, appeared in London, from the pen...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 7/2011

Emma Kirkby Collection

In some musical circles it is still de rigueur to refer to approved female singers by the Christian name. Whether...

Reviewed in issue 9/1987

Beethoven String Quartets

I like the rather slow tempos in the first two movements of the E flat, and I don't think I...

Reviewed in issue 4/1983

Jorge Bolet - Piano Encores

Encores in the concert hall were of two types: stunning, to have the natives gasping; relaxing, after a tornado of...

Reviewed in issue 7/1987

Icon - Fritz Kreisler

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 8/2009

Bach St Matthew Passion

The fashion for “single-voice” Bach Passions has happily shifted from prescriptive theorising on contemporary practice to rhetorical impact for the...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 6/2011

Saint-Saëns Samson et Dalila

This is an auspicious beginning to what one hopes will be a series of recordings of French opera made with...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1993

The Virtuoso Liszt

Helmerson is a Swedish cellist of the middle generation, born in 1945, who was acclaimed in London some ten years...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/1986