Dvorák Chamber Works

Borodin Quartet | Igor Oistrakh | Miroslav Rusin | Sviatoslav Richter | Victor Pikaisen

There are two other versions of the Piano Quintet available, by Clifford Curzon with the Vienna Philharmonic Quartet (Decca) and...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/1985

Vienna State Opera Live, Vol.22

Adele Kern | Alexander Kipnis | Anne Michalsky | Anny Konetzni | Anton Paulik | Bella Paalen | Clemens Krauss | Daga Söderqvist | Daniza Ilitsch | Dora With

Volume 22 is a vital issue. It documents Hotter at the height of his powers as a young Heldenbariton in...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1996

Richter plays Britten

Evgeni Svetlanov | Natalia Gutman | Sviatoslav Richter | USSR State Symphony Orchestra | Yuri Bashmet

The live performance of the Piano Concerto dates from May 1967, over three years before Richter’s famous commercial recording with...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 13/1997

Shostakovich String Quartets/Piano Quintet

Borodin Qt | Borodin Quartet | Sviatoslav Richter

The release of this seven-LP set is timed to coincide with the Borodin Quartet's visit to London this spring when...

Reviewed in issue 3/1986

Mozart Arias

Felicity Lott | Jane Glover | London Mozart Players

The record begins and ends in delight but dissatisfaction creeps in inbetween. Exsultate, jubilate, fine as recorded sound, crisp in...

Reviewed in issue 2/1990

DVOŘÁK Complete Cello Works

Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra | Tomás Jamník | Tomás Netopil

I was particularly grateful to receive this set, principally because it affords me the opportunity of putting to rights...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2011

Haydn Symphonies Nos 6, 7 & 8

Freiburg Baroque Orchestra

Promises are unfulfilled; but in neither case is it because of poor intentions. Rather the weaknesses appear to result from...

Reviewed in issue 6/2002

Britten War Requiem

American Boychoir | Carol Vaness | Jerry Hadley | Kurt Masur | New York Philharmonic Orchestra | Samuel Wong | Thomas Hampson | Westminster Symphonic Choir

Every recorded performance of Britten’s War Requiem has drawn the best from its interpreters – no wonder, considering the greatness...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1998

Mahler Symphony No 2

The great Mahler Resurrection recording – and by that I mean, of course, the proverbial “library” choice – still eludes...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 4/2011

Wolf Mörike-Lieder

Bernhard Renzikowski | Frauke May

Wolf’s masterly settings of Mörike are unique in two respects. They were written in a period of extraordinary inspiration in...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 13/2004