Schubert Winterreise

Gerald Moore | Hans Hotter | Norman Shetler | Siegfried Lorenz

It is remarkable and surprising just how many versions of this cycle are already available on CD (four others besides...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1988

Tito Gobbi - Opera Arias & Songs

(Anonymous) Orchestra | Alberto Erede | Armando la Rosa Parodi | Instrumental Ensemble | James Robertson | London Symphony Orchestra | Milan La Scala Orchestra | Philharmonia Orchestra | Philip Green | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

The masterpiece in this fine recital is Rigoletto's ''Pari siamo'', a performance probably unequalled on records, even by Gobbi himself...

Reviewed in issue 8/1993

W Lawes Four & Five Part Consorts

Phantasm

Fans of English consort music will be familiar with Fretwork’s polished recordings of four of William Lawes’s Setts a 5...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 8/2000

Schubert Orchestrated Lieder

Anne Sofie von Otter | Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Claudio Abbado | Thomas Quasthoff

Schubert himself orchestrated only one of these songs, the Romance from Rosamunde. The other arrangers are Berlioz, Brahms, Britten, Liszt,...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/2003

Palestrina Ave maris stella

Camerata Nova | Luigi Taglioni

This is the new Italian sound of renaissance church music: a gentle vibrato, but a wonderfully loose and relaxed sound...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 6/1997

Monteverdi: Fifth Book of Madrigals

Andrew King | Anthony Rooley | Cathy Cass | Consort of Musicke | Emma Kirkby | Evelyn Tubb | John Milne | Joseph Cornwell | Mary Nichols | Poppy Holden

Five years ago JM greeted the Consort of Musicke's recording of Monteverdi's Fifth Book of Madrigals with great enthusiasm: now...

Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 11/1989

Pujol Chamber Works

Amiram Ganz | María Isabel Siewers | Stamitz Qt

After the recent run on Piazzolla we move on to the next generation of Argentinian composers. Maximo Diego Pujol, now...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 9/1997

Chopin Piano Works

Alfredo Perl | Angela Hewitt | Freddy (Frederick) Kempf

Here are three radically different slants on Chopin, a composer who continues to provide an indissoluble musical and technical challenge...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 4/2005

Bach St Matthew Passion

Claudia Schubert | Frans Brüggen | Harry van der Kamp | Ian Bostridge | Kristinn Sigmundsson | Maria Cristina Kiehr | Mona Julsrud | Netherlands Chamber Choir | Nico van der Meel | Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century

Hardly is the ink – yes, some of us still use the stuff – dry from my review of a...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 7/1998

Duphly Complete Harpsichord Works

Jacques Duphly was perhaps the most gifted harpsichord composer in the last phase of the French harpsichord school. He and...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 2/1993