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Arensky Solo Piano Works

Arensky (1861-1906) is best remembered today for just a handful of works – including the First Piano Trio and the...

Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 3/1999

Fidelio Ensemble play Bizet, Gounod & D'Indy

The flood of historical reissues has now reached the point where smaller companies are offering rival versions of the same...

Reviewed in issue 3/1992

Franck; Rachmaninov Cello Sonatas

There is no shortage of versions of César Franck’s Violin Sonata for cello and piano (see also Duncan Druce on...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 7/2003

Bruckner Symphony No 9

When Giulini first recorded Bruckner's Ninth Symphony for EMI (nla) with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra I thought the reading grand...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 8/1989

Prokofiev/Ravel Piano Works

Despite its somewhat elusive nature Ravel's Left Hand Piano Concerto has always been well served on record, and there is...

Reviewed in issue 10/1989

Bruckner Symphony No 6; Bach Fuga ricercata (orch Webern)

This is an extraordinarily bold and vivid account of what is unaccountably still the least fashionable of Bruckner's mature symphonies....

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/1994

Britten War Requiem

I shall stick out my neck. If I had to allow only one work by Britten on to the proverbial...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1989

Arriaga Symphony in D

The precocious gifts of Arriaga are of an order to be set alongside those of a Mozart or a Mendelssohn....

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 12/2003

Madre de Deus - Cantigas de Santa Maria

This is the second Italian ensemble to come my way with a recording from the same Spanish compilation,...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 9/1999

Mozart Orchestral Works

With a dozen versions of Mozart's violin concertos listed in the 1994 Good CD Guide, and others also of the...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 12/1993

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