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The concerto performances are splendid ones: stylish solo playing, bouncingly alert orchestral playing; and a good balance held between the two, far from being an accomplishment to be taken for granted in the recording of harpsichord concertos. Indeed just once the harpsichord caught the ear...

The Marriner recording of 1972 on Philips was and remains the most eccentric in the catalogues. It offered (more or less) the original Cöthen version of these concertos before Bach revised them for the Elector of Brandenburg, and the music was prepared by Thurston Dart just before his untimely...

Just recently we have had a near complete recording of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's solo organ music (Telefunken Das Alte Werk EX6 35453, to be reviewed next month); now we have his two organ concertos, plus one of the works just recorded. Bach wrote many concertos for keyboard, but only two of...

I enjoyed this account of the Pastoral much more than I have some of the earlier reissues from Bernard Haitink's Beethoven cycle. It is well-paced and finely proportioned, and the orchestral playing communicates genuine pleasure in music making. In his original review, RO spoke of it as "crisp,...

Ten years after its first appearance, this set still rivets the attention: provocative, often spell-binding, occasionally infuriating, never dull. Playing under Kiemperer's hawklike gaze, Barenboim conjures readings of rare spontaneity and resource, whilst KIemperer, provoked by the irrepressible...