Bach Das wohltemperirte Klavier, Book 1

Blandine Verlet

At a time when harpsichord playing tends to be polarized, that of Blandine Verlet strikes a refreshingly individual note. She...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 6/1994

Wagner Gala - New Year's Eve Concert 1993

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Bryn Terfel | Cheryl Studer | Claudio Abbado | Siegfried Jerusalem | Waltraud Meier

This New Year's Eve concert is a notable improvement on its Strauss predecessor of 1992 (Sony, 7/93)-at least as far...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1994

Mattia Battistini (1856-1928)

(Anonymous) Orchestra | Aristodemo Sillich | Emilia Corsi | Luigi Colazza | Mattia Battistini

Just over five years ago EMI published their great Battistini edition ((LP) EX290790-3, 7/86), but it was evidently too good...

Reviewed in issue 2/1992

Mélodies françaises

Gérard Wyss | Wolfgang Holzmair

There have been quite a few French-speaking singers who have made their mark in Lieder. (Souzay, Crespin, more recently Pollet...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 5/1997

American Quintets (Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective)

Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective | Matthew Rose

If the aim of a debut is to captivate, showcase talent, lend insight into a curatorial perspective and leave the...

Reviewed by Amy Blier-Carruthers in issue: 07/2021

Ives Songs, Vol.2

Henry Herford | Robin Bowman

I gave a warm welcome to Vol. 1 of this series of Ives songs (9/91) and included it in my...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 3/1992

SAINT-SAËNS; WIDOR Organ Symphonies (Jacobson)

Christopher Jacobson | Kazuki Yamada | Suisse Romande Orchestra

Saint-Saëns’s Organ Symphony has long been a showcase both for engineering prowess and for the capabilities of one’s hi-fi kit....

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2019

BRAHMS Complete Duets and Quartets

CPO’s complete Brahms song series started as long ago as the early ’90s, and the sessions for this release –...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2017

Andreas Schmidt Lieder Recital

Andreas Schmidt | Cord Garben

I became sceptical when I noted that such a young singer had chosen to record at once these two late...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1991

PFITZNER Palestrina

Alfred Reiter | Britta Stallmeister | Claudia Mahnke | Frank Van Aken | Frankfurt Museum Orchestra | Frankfurt Opera Chorus | Frankfurt Opera Orchestra | Franz Mayer | Hans-Jürgen Lazar | Johannes Martin Kränzle

In Palestrina, Pfitzner was an inheritor of Wagner’s through-composed music dramas – indeed, his sparing use of vocal display, of...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 09/2012