Bartók Bluebeard's Castle

John Tomlinson | Opera North Orchestra | Richard Farnes | Sally Burgess

Something of a nostalgia trip, this – returning to an English-language Bluebeard’s Castle. Many years ago I’d regularly engage with...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 7/2006

Walton String Quartets

Gabrieli Qt

It is just a year (October) since the Gabrieli Quartet performed for the first time in almost 70 years what...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/1991

Rodrigo Guitar Concertos

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra | Craig Ogden | Sachio Fujioka

Rodrigo’s three works for solo guitar and orchestra neatly occupy a single CD, though I doubt if Rodrigo had this...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 1/1999

Britten The Rape of Lucretia-Highlights

Anna Pollak | Benjamin Britten | Edmund Donleavy | English Opera Group Orchestra | Joan Cross | Kathleen Ferrier | Margaret Ritchie | Otakar Kraus | Owen Brannigan | Peter Pears

The eighth volume of Bach Collegium Japan’s Bach cantata series (see reviews in 6/96, 9/96, 11/96, 6/97, 1/98, 7/98 and...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 1/1999

Hartmann, E Songs

Less well known than his father Johann Peter Emilius, Emil Hartmann (1836-98) was nevertheless a respected figure in 19th-century Denmark....

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 5/2011

Dallapiccola Orchestral Works

Anita Morrison | Bruno Canino | Dallapiccola Ensemble | Luigi Suvini | Marco Rizzi

Dallapiccola is thinly represented on record at the moment—surprisingly so, when so many rarities and obscurities are readily available. If...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 3/1994

Sibelius Piano Works

Olli Mustonen

Like him or loathe him, Olli Mustonen has one of the most distinctive pianistic personalities of our day, and he...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 1/2003

Morton Gould Choral Music

(Gregg) Smith Singers | Gregg Smith | John Daly Goodwin | New York Choral Society | New York Choral Society Orchestra

Anyone who bought Benny Goodman's recording of Copland's Clarinet Concerto (CBS (CD) CD42227, 4/87) or bought the same record for...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 4/1991

Schubert Winterreise

Peter Schreier | Sviatoslav Richter

I had great expectations of this issue, and on the whole they have been amply fulfilled. As one might expect...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1986

The Bel Canto Bassoon

Julius Drake | Kim Walker | Laurence Perkins | Michael Hancock

The major common factor to the two explorations of bassoon repertory is the Saint-Saens Sonata with piano, a most agreeable...

Reviewed in issue 10/1989