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Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem
The first word of the Deutsches Requiem is “selig”; the last movement reiterates it, and throughout there recur images of...
Reviewed in issue 2/1996
A Scarlatti Il Trionfo dell'Onestà
Competent but unsubtle performances of less than the best Scarlatti, though the sonata for recorder and two violins is more...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 11/1999
Schumann Lieder
Geoffrey Parsons | Thomas Hampson
Hampson has a growing reputation as a Lieder artist, further justified by this intelligently planned and executed recital. Several of...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1991
Beethoven/Mozart Piano Concertos
Helen Huang | Kurt Masur | New York Philharmonic Orchestra
For artists at the beginning of a career a recording these days is like a visiting card: if you leave...
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 1/1996
Gustavo Dudamel - (The) Promise Of Music
Gustavo Dudamel | Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra
The “sistema” has been going in Venezuela for more than 30 years. It is probably the most ambitious programme of...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 13/2008
Mozart Violin Concertos
Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra | Isabelle van Keulen
I reviewed Isabelle van Keulen's performances of the two other Mozart violin concertos—of the official canon of five, that is,...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 5/1993
(20) Great Pianists
Who has still got their LP of RCA Victrola VIC1210 “Keyboard Giants of the Past”? It was instrumental in firing...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 1/2007
Offenbach Romantique
(Les) Musiciens du Louvre | Jerôme Pernoo | Marc Minkowski
Long before he scored his big success as a composer of operettas with Orphée aux enfers, Offenbach was renowned as...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/2007
Britten The World of the Spirit etc
The Coplandesque An American Overture – written in October 1941 for Artur Rodzinski and the Cleveland Orchestra but unperformed until...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 6/1997
Purcell Dioclesian and Timon of Athens Masques
The grand tradition of the masque in England has deep roots as a complete musico-dramatic entity in Elizabethan times, yet...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/1994
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