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Bach Oboe Concertos

There is plenty of sound musicological evidence to support the theory that Bach had the oboe in mind as a...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 3/1984

In Excelsis

This largely admirable set gets off to a rather unpromising start. Higginbottom suggests that Giles Swayne’s Magnificat links ‘the highly...

Reviewed in issue 10/2002

Bernstein Dybbuk; Fancy Free

If when Jerome Robbins and the New York City Ballet commissioned Dybbuk from Leonard Bernstein they were expecting a populist...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 2/2007

Byrd; Tallis Cantiones Sacrae

This claims to be the first complete recording in the original order of the 1575 Cantiones sacrae, the volume of...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 3/2011

Bernstein, L Peter Pan

If you happen to be one of the few who possess or has heard the original cast album for the...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 13/2005

York Bowen Piano Works

More than 40 years ago, as a first-year undergraduate at Cambridge, I played York Bowen's First Ballade at the University...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 12/1995

Rachmaninov Études-tableaux; Corelli Variations

On the face of it, this is an interesting coupling of two Rachmaninov works which are sharply contrasted one with...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 2/2010

Venetian Music of the 17th Century

The prospect of Venetian music of the 17th century conjures up expectations of madrigals and monody on the one hand...

Reviewed in issue 13/2001

Purcell: Songs

Paul Esswood's great assets, I need hardly mention, are his sensitivity to the words and the unusual smoothness of his...

Reviewed in issue 7/1983

Artur Schnabel in Performance

Listening to this historically important CD reminded me how, for years, Artur Schnabel was thought of as the stereotypical ‘intellectual’...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 3/2003

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