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Puccini (Il) Trittico
This Warner DVD offers idiomatic performances from La Scala of Puccini’s trilogy, conducted by the veteran Gianandrea Gavazzeni, always an...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 9/2004
Purcell The Tempest
There is so much pleasure to be had from Purcell’s semi-operas that it is easy to wish we had more...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 2/2001
Dvorák Piano Quintets
Borodin Qt | Sviatoslav Richter
This is really a record for specialist collectors of two kinds. Lovers of Dvorak's music will not want to miss...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1985
Schumann Piano Works
Here are 77 minutes of delight from Russia’s recently unearthed Aladdin’s Cave beginning with Schumann’s Op. 12 Fantasiestucke, recorded by...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 1/1997
Dvorák Piano Quintets, Op 5 and Op 81
Borodin Qt | Sviatoslav Richter
These are eloquent, highly characterful performances, captured live at a concert (we are not vouchsafed where) on New Year’s Eve...
Reviewed in issue 1/1998
Andrew Lawrence-King King David's Harp
The repertoire for baroque harp is not large, at least not if you only look for music that has been...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 13/1998
Schubert Trout Quintet
Borodin Qt | Georg Hörtnagel | Sviatoslav Richter
The 22-year-old Schubert's happy zest when composing this ever-fresh delight was exultantly caught in the Brendel/Cleveland recording on Philips. Anyone...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 4/1984
Schubert Symphonies
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Karl Böhm
When Karl Bohm’s 1963-71 Berlin Schubert cycle was first gathered together in a five-LP box in 1973, Trevor Harvey had...
Reviewed in issue 8/2001
Schumann Symphony No.2; Vom Pagen und der Königstochter. Op.140
Schumann’s four choral ballads, dating from his final ill-starred years as conductor of the Dusseldorf Orchestra and Choir, are having...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/2001
Falla, Milhaud & Stravinsky Operas
Three operas on one disc? Yes, though obviously not grand ones with chorus: they instead use chamber forces, so today...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 7/1991
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