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Mendelssohn Elijah
Paul Daniel and Bryn Terfel ensure that this is one of the most dramatic performances of the oratorio on disc,...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1997
Verdi Il Trovatore
We begin in the best of ways. D’Arcangelo offers the most convincingly sung‚ communicative version of Ferrando’s Narration since Zaccaria...
Reviewed in issue 13/2002
Im wachen Traume
Claudia Barainsky | Delian Quartett | Mikhail Timoshenko
At the risk of sounding like a damaged sound file (as opposed to a broken record): did anybody listen to...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 09/2024
Messiaen Saint François d'Assise
In a composing career full of magnum opuses, Messiaen’s only opera, eight years in the writing, occupies a special place....
Reviewed in issue 11/1999
Mahler Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Artists from The Netherlands have always had a close affinity with Mahler's music, so it's hardly surprising to find this...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1994
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 6
Leonard Bernstein | Mariss Jansons | New York Philharmonic Orchestra | Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
The timings given on the sleeve of this latest version of the Pathetique from Bernstein seem so improbable that I...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/1987
LALO Concertante Works for Violin, Cello & Piano
Jean-Jacques Kantorow | Nathanaël Gouin | Ori Epstein | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Liège
Much admired in his lifetime, Lalo’s concertante works still form the basis of his reputation thanks to the abiding popularity...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2016
Beethoven Symphony 9
At a time when Europe was recovering from the traumas of war, the visionary power of Beethoven's music must have...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 9/1988
Schubert Choral Songs
Of all the hundreds of settings of Psalm 23 (“The Lord is my shepherd”) surely none exudes such calm and...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 10/1997
(A) Yiddish Winterreise - A Holocaust Survivor's Inner Journey Told Through Yiddish Song
Alexander Knapp | Mark Glanville
Let me first confess to misgivings about which, if they had proved true, I would have said nothing and simply...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 5/2010
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