BERLIOZ La damnation de Faust

Bernard Haitink | Charlotte Margiono | Jaco Huijpen | Netherlands Radio Choir | Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra | Thomas Quasthoff | Vinson Cole

Back in 1999 the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam invited Bernard Haitink to give a carte blanche series of concerts involving five...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 06/2011

JS BACH The Well-Tempered Clavier

Samuil Feinberg’s magnificent Russian recording of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier (taped 1958-61) commands a range of keyboard colour that at times...

Reviewed in issue AW2014

WOLF Lieder

Dietrich Henschel | Philippe Herreweghe | Royal Flemish Philharmonic Orchestra

Hugo Wolf’s songs tend to be such self-sufficient worlds in miniature that one rarely sees them given the sort of...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2014

SCHUMANN Cello Concerto DVOŘÁK Cello Concerto

Jamie Walton | Philharmonia Orchestra | Vladimir Ashkenazy

Jamie Walton’s latest anthology for Signum once again shows him to be a impressive performer in terms of technical acumen,...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 06/2013

Haydn The Creation

(Arnold) Schoenberg Choir | Edita Gruberová | Josef Protschka | Nikolaus Harnoncourt | Robert Holl | Vienna Symphony Orchestra

Despite my reservations about his recent Don Giovanni which I reviewed in October, let me say without more ado that...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 4/1987

Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle

Ambrosian Singers | Claudio Scimone | Craig Sheppard | José Carreras | Katia Ricciarelli | Margarita Zimmermann | Paul Berkowitz | Richard Nunn | Samuel Ramey

Like so many things Rossinian, the Petite messe solennelle, one of the most original and engaging of all settings of...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/1984

Verdi Rigoletto

None of these, I should say, would be first choice for first-time buyers of the opera concerned, though all but...

Reviewed in issue 9/1991

Bartok Violin Concertos

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra | Gianandrea Noseda | James Ehnes

Among the many ‘if only…’ fantasies that marry a particular work to a particular artist is Jascha Heifetz performing Bartók’s...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/11

Haydn Complete Symphonies

Dennis Russell Davies | Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra

Stuttgart is home to a vibrant Haydn symphony performing tradition. To an early ’90s disc of three symphonies connected with...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 0/0

(L')orgue dom Bedos de Sainte-Croix de Bordeaux

Gustav Leonhardt

This disc ought perhaps to be subtitled ‘Wine in the Service of Music’! A bumper grape harvest in 1748 brought...

Reviewed in issue 6/2002