Puccini Tosca

Ann Murray | Colin Davis | Domenico Trimarchi | Ingvar Wixell | José Carreras | Montserrat Caballé | Piero de Palma | Royal Opera House Chorus, Covent Garden | Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden | Samuel Ramey

When we still lack a fully digital CD set of Tosca, it is good to have in a fine transfer...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/1986

Handel: Ballet Music

English Baroque Soloists | John Eliot Gardiner

Handel wrote all this ballet music for operas, new or revived, in which Marie Salle was to dance while she...

Reviewed in issue 6/1985

The Romantic Englishman

Hilliard Ensemble | Lena-Luis Kiesel

Novello's part-songs at threepence a copy (perhaps not that), the male-voice quartet (alto on top, no nonsense about countertenors in...

Reviewed in issue 12/1991

Brahms and Chopin: Piano Works

Orrett Rhoden

The 26-year-old Jamaican, Orrett Rhoden, is a born entertainer, but his musical talents, when heard divorced from his colourful personality,...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 5/1987

Scarlatti Benedicta et Venerabilis Es; Salve Regina

Concerto de’ Cavalieri present four of Alessandro Scarlatti’s sacred works written in the modern stile concertante. Marcello Di Lisa’s use...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 3/2011

Stravinsky Symphonies

London Symphony Chorus (amateur) | London Symphony Orchestra | Michael Tilson Thomas

I had better admit that evaluating any new recording of these masterpieces always prompts the same unanswerable question: to what...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/1994

Hommage à Jane Bathori - Upshaw

Dawn Upshaw | Jérôme Ducros

Jane Bathori, whose career and support for composers is celebrated by Dawn Upshaw and Jerome Ducros in their recital, was...

Reviewed in issue 7/2000

Barber; Poulenc; Saint-Saëns Wks for Org & Orch

Christoph Eschenbach | Olivier Latry | Philadelphia Orchestra

Eschenbach's Poulenc is heavily romanticised, squeezing every last drop of pathos from the score and finding many moments of ravishing...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 3/2007

Mahler Das Lied von der Erde

Bruno Walter | Kathleen Ferrier | New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra | Set Svanholm

The source of this performance is a privately made recording on acetates, so the ear of faith and tolerance of...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1999

Boccherini String Trios

(L')Europa Galante Trio

Most of the Boccherini chamber music, and cello music, that we have on records comes from his early and middle...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 5/1992