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Verdi Requiem

''Calculated'' was how TH characterized this interpretation when it first appeared, and it has always seemed to me the just...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1984

Mozart: Piano Concertos 16 and 19

Christian Zacharias is a well-proven artist in this repertory. I have always found much to admire in his Mozart concerto...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 9/1990

Galway plays Bach

Devotees of archeology and 'Bacheology' seem equally concerned with finding the layer below the layer; the former need only dig...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 6/1993

Palestrina Missa Benedicta es

It is hard to think of a record label having had a more auspicious debut or one that so clearly...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 7/1990

English Mad Songs and Ayres

It's perhaps a bit misleading of Dorian to call this disc ''English Mad Songs and Ayres''; the emphasis on the...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 5/1992

Sacred Songs

It is difficult to know quite how seriously to take this disc of Chants sacres, recorded as it is by...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 4/1991

Sallinen: Orchestral Works

It is now almost a quarter of a century since Sallinen first came to international attention with Mauermusik, written in...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 6/1986

Handel Agrippina

Agrippina was first performed at Venice’s Teatro San Giovanni Crisostomo on December 26, 1709, towards the end of Handel’s extended...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 7/2004

Pierne Chamber Works, Vol 1

Gabriel Pierné will be an unfamiliar name to most readers, although those remembering the 78rpm era may recall his once-famous...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 3/2007

Tchaikovsky Works for Violin and Orchestra

Three more versions of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto, all with their claims, add to a bewildering choice of over 30...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 9/1990

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