Wagner (Die) Walküre

Albert Dohmen | Charlotte Margiono | Doris Soffel | Dorothy Grandia | Ellen van Haaren | Hartmut Haenchen | Hebe Dijkstra | Irene Pieters | John Keyes | Kurt Rydl

They manage things well in Amsterdam. After DVDs from the first round of the Pierre Audi/ Georges Tsypin production, now...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 4/2007

Schoeck Cello Concerto; Sommernacht

Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss | Johannes Goritzki

There seems to be a resurgence of interest in Schoeck and I was delighted to see that Jecklin-Disco have recently...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 10/1989

Bach St Matthew Passion (abridged)

Furtwangler's St Matthew Passion was recorded from live performances in Vienna in 1954, some seven months before he died. The...

Reviewed in issue 10/1995

BARTÓK Violin Concerto No 2 (Skride)

Baiba Skride | Eivind Aadland | WDR Symphony Orchestra

Yet more formidable reportage of what’s surely one of the last century’s truly great concertos. Among the finest versions to...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2019

LISZT A Faust Symphony

Martin Haselböck | Sine Nomine | Steve Davislim | Vienna Academy Orchestra

Writing of Martin Haselböck’s Liszt recordings in a previous Gramophone context I remarked how ‘the period-instrument Vienna Academy Orchestra…takes us...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2017

HINDEMITH Cardillac (Soltész)

Jan-Hendrik Rootering | Juliane Banse | Kay Stiefermann | Markus Eiche | Michaela Selinger | Munich Radio Orchestra | Oliver Ringelhahn | Prague Philharmonic Choir | Stefan Soltesz | Torsten Kerl

This is, by my reckoning, only the third audio recording of Cardillac, Paul Hindemith’s first full-scale opera, premiered in Dresden...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 10/2023

Weill (Der) Neue Orpheus; Royal Palace

Andrew Davis | Ashley Holland | BBC Singers | BBC Symphony Orchestra | Camilla Tilling | Erika Zimmermann | Gisela Litz | Hans Hotter | Janice Watson | Jeremy White

The opening chorus, with its jagged march rhythm and jazzy orchestration, positively screams the composer’s name. Royal Palace, to a...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 1/2005

Wolf Lieder

Ruth Ziesak | Ulrich Eisenlohr

Ruth Ziesak, who made her name with her Salzburg Pamina in 1991 and again last summer and also on record...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1994

Schubert Die schöne Müllerin

The cycles of Schubert seem a continuing magnet for any tenor or baritone with pretensions in the Lieder field, Schmidt...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1992

Bach Christmas Oratorio

Christa Ludwig | Franz Crass | Fritz Wunderlich | Gundula Janowitz | Karl Richter | Munich Bach Choir | Munich Bach Orchestra

Too late for a review in time for Christmas! Never mind, there are more successful performances of Bach's Christmas Oratorio...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 3/1989