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Like Goldsand and Firkusny, Miss Haebler gets all eight Schubert impromptus on to a single disc, whereas Badura-Skoda takes three sides (with Schubert's A major Sonata on the fourth) and is not very well recorded. Unlike Goldsand and Firkusny, Miss Haebler is not primarily a virtuoso pianist ; by...

In some ways, unfashionable as it may be to say so, the arrangements on this record seem to make a more immediately stunning effect than the original works. Glazounov's Quartet, in three short movements, is an agreeable one that is very welcome on disc ; but in its instrumentally more...

Beethoven composed this group of six sacred songs, to words by Christian Fiirchtegott Gellert (1715-69) in 1803, the year after he completed the Second Symphony.

A superb pair of sides, an issue it is a pleasure to write about. Here are two apocalyptic visions of the sort that were impossible to record with any kind of accuracy until to-day's recording techniques ; huge masses of choral and orchestral tone, interleaved with silences or distant, single...

I was a little disappointed by this record, partly because I have a good opinion of the Renaissance Singers and have heard them sing better than this ; also because the recording lacks lustre. The voices are not too well balanced, and the quality of the sound is unexciting. The suggestion of...