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Liszt Piano Works

Who said anticipation was better than realisation? In the Bach-Liszt, Polina Leschenko sets off at a blistering pace and leggiero,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2007

Handel Keyboard Suites, Vol. 1

Even by Sviatoslav Richter’s Tours Festival standards 1979 was a red-letter year. Then, partnered by his dazzling young compatriot Andrei...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/1996

Verdi (Le) Trouvère

This is an important historic document, a recording of the first modern performance, given at Martina Franca in the summer...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1999

Purcell Dido and Aeneas

Herve Niquet’s sensitive understanding of French baroque music – I think immediately of his colourful reading of Rameau’s Pygmalion (Virgin...

Reviewed in issue 7/2001

C.P.E. Bach Sinfonias

These five interesting and, it would appear, hitherto commercially unrecorded symphonies of C. P. E. Bach's Berlin years have been...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 9/1987

Britten Choral Works

Saint Nicolas was due a new recording and it receives a very fine one here, made in All Hallows, Gospel...

Reviewed in issue 5/1989

Paisiello Nina

I truly never have seen a work brought back to life which I’d sooner put to sleep again without delay....

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 10/2003

Sibelius Songs, Vol 1

This is the first volume of a projected complete edition of Sibelius’s songs, and it would be a pleasure to...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 5/2007

Britten: Vocal & Orchestral Works

Giulini's recordings of Britten's two most popular song cycles transfer well to CD, although his use of the fullest body...

Reviewed in issue 11/1988

Holst Choral Works

Here is a real discovery. In her book on her father's music, Imogen Holst dismissed The Cloud Messenger as ''a...

Reviewed in issue 5/1991

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