Haydn Die Schöpfung

Armin Jordan | Eric Tappy | Horiana Branisteanu | Kurt Rydl | Lausanne Chamber Orchestra | Lausanne Pro Arte Choir | Margaret Marshall | Philippe Huttenlocher | Suisse Romande Radio Choir

Two more re-Creations: one which is something of a red herring in Haydn's great deep, and one which has been...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 3/1991

Haydn Die Jahreszeiten

(Arnold) Schoenberg Choir | Angela Maria Blasi | Josef Protschka | Nikolaus Harnoncourt | Robert Holl | Vienna Symphony Orchestra

Die Jahreszeiten, admitted Haydn, was no second Schopfung. If Die Schopfung was a hard act for even the composer to...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 2/1988

Wolf Italienisches Liederbuch

I waxed lyrical about the Italienisches Liederbuch when reviewing the versions listed above a year ago. Suffice it to say...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1991

Mozart Piano Concertos No. 20 & 24

Daniel Barenboim | English Chamber Orchestra | Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt | London Symphony Orchestra | Philharmonia Orchestra | Vladimir Ashkenazy

Barenboim's way with Mozart's piano concertos is well known and has rightly won praise: he imparts energy and a feeling...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 3/1988

Gluck Iphigénie en Tauride

Colette Alliot-Lugaz | Diana Montague | John Aler | John Eliot Gardiner | Lyon Opera Orchestra | Monteverdi Choir | Nancy Argenta | René Massis | Sophie Boulton | Thomas Allen

The praises of Gluck's Iphigenie en Tauride are sung a good deal more often than the opera itself. Written for...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 6/1986

Barber The Songs

Cheryl Studer | Emerson Qt | John Browning | Thomas Hampson

The word 'complete' appears on the booklet accompanying this set, and although it's not literally true (there are many unpublished...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 5/1994

SCHUMANN Stille Liebe (Samuel Hasselhorn)

Joseph Middleton | Samuel Hasselhorn

Episodic ballads were hardly natural territory for Schumann, supreme master of the lyric epigram. Songs like ‘Belsatzar’ and the sprawling,...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2020

REIMANN Lear; SALLINEN King Lear

Aki Alamikkotervo | Andrew Watts | Bo Skovhus | Christian Miedl | Erwin Leder | Finnish National Opera Chorus | Finnish National Opera Orchestra | Frieder Stricker | Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra | Hamburg State Opera Chorus

Aulis Sallinen’s Kuningas Lear – from a translation of the play by Matti Rossi – was filmed in 2002 at...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 07/2015

MOZART; SCHUMANN Fantasies

Piotr Anderszewski

It’s questionable whether Mozart intended his C minor Fantasy, K475, to be yoked with the C minor Sonata, K457, in...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 04/2017

Bach Cantatas, Vol 19

Bach Collegium Japan | Makoto Sakurada | Masaaki Suzuki | Robin Blaze | Stephan MacLeod | Yukari Nonoshita

Ton Koopman’s Bach cantata series was set to complete well before Masaaki Suzuki’s, each Erato release containing three discs, leaving...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 2/2003