R. Strauss Als sprach Zarathustra; Festliches Präludium

Zarathustra has usually fared well in recordings, and of course it is a score that might have been designed with...

Reviewed in issue 8/1988

(The) Fauré Album

In a note on this ‘Fauré Album’ – as attractive a compilation as one could imagine – violinist Gil Shaham...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/2004

Wagner Die Walküre- Act 3

I regret that I found little joy in re-acquainting myself with this performance, which was rather in the nature of...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1991

Mozart & his Contemporaries

Many in the nineteenth century rated Cimarosa at least as highly as Mozart and one can hear why in the...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1995

Stravinsky Jeu de Cartes; Danses Concertantes; Scènes de Ballet

This collection of Stravinsky’s later ballets represents the composer in lighter mood, making a delightful sequence, very well played and...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/2008

Wuorinen The Winds

If, among American composers, you find Babbitt or Carter too arid and Corigliano or Harbison too soft-centred, try Charles Wuorinen....

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/1997

Lachenmann (Das) Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern, '(The) Little Match-Girl'

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 8/2002

Beethoven Fidelio

When apparently pragmatic details of a recording's editing and layout articulate and underline the essential character of a performance, then...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 6/1987

Bach Concertos for 3 and 4 Keyboards

This seems to have got separated from a companion release. When SP reviewed the LP version last June there was...

Reviewed in issue 5/1985

English Songs Peter Warloch and Ralph Vaughan Williams

This spellbinding recital of English songs was first issued nearly ten years ago on an Oxford University Press LP. It...

Reviewed in issue 4/1990