Debussy Piano Works

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli

It is of course disappointing that Michelangeli’s association with DG in the last 20 years of his life failed to...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 5/1996

Smetana Libuse

Antonín Svorc | Eva Depoltová | Gabriela Benacková | Karel Prusa | Leo Marian Vodicka | Prague National Theatre Chorus | Prague National Theatre Orchestra | René Tucek | Václav Zítek | Vera Soukupová

Libuse is, by virtue of its subject and treatment, unlikely to travel very far outside Czech lands, except through recordings;...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 4/1994

Rossini Overtures

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

This is now the most realistically recorded collection of Rossini overtures on CD, the upper range sweeter and cleaner than...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/1985

Guildhall Ensemble plays Finzi and Ashmore

Guildhall String Ensemble | Richard Stoltzman

Finzi's attractive Clarinet Concerto is well represented on disc. This latest performance by Richard Stoltzman is beautifully played in an...

Reviewed in issue 9/1991

Schubert on Record, Volume 1

Anonymous Pianist(s) | (Anonymous) Orchestra | Aaltje Noordewier-Reddingius | Aksel Schiøtz | Alexander Kipnis | Anthon van der Horst | Arpad Sándor | Artur Nikisch | Artur Schnabel | Benjamin Britten

Much has happened to the interpretation of Lieder since 1952, quite a bit since 1982 when this issue first appeared...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1997

Delius Danish Masterworks

Aarhus Chamber Choir | Aarhus Symphony Orchestra | Bo Holten | Danish National Opera Chorus | Henriette Bonde-Hansen | Johan Reuter

This collection of Delius’s Danish inspirations, beautifully performed and recorded, makes a delightftul disc, including as it does rarities that...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 9/2000

Tchaikovsky

Christopher Nupen has been making films with Vladimir Ashkenazy and friends since 1966. Some of these are timeless. Not so...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 1/2010

Edwin Carr Orchestral Works

Kenneth Young | New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

Those inquisitive readers who took up my suggestion in the May issue to investigate Continuum’s enterprising two-disc set of orchestral...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/1996

Cantare

Felicity Lott | Isabelle Moretti

Despite the participation of Felicity Lott and the primary subtitle “Cantare”, it seems probable that the recital was conceived essentially...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 10/2010

Dvorák Chamber Works

Josef Chuchro | Josef Suk | Smetana Qt

These two works are intelligently coupled, and have been so before (for instance, by the Raphael Ensemble on Hyperion). The...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 9/1993