Sullivan (The) Yeomen of the Guard; Trial by Jury

Alia Rehwinkle | Alwyn Mellor | Andrea Courtney | Barry Banks | Carin Hoffman | Charles Mackerras | Clare O'Neill | Donald Adams | Donald Maxwell | Felicity Palmer

Between them, The Yeomen of the Guard and Trial by Jury contain all that is best in Sullivan’s music for...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 2/1996

Verdi Falstaff

Ambrogio Maestri | Anna Caterina Antonacci | Barbara Frittoli | Bernadette Manca di Nissa | Charlotte Hellekant | Enrique Mazzola | Ernesto Gavazzi | Geraldine McGreevy | Inva Mula-Tchako | Juan Diego Flórez

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/2003

Offenbach (Les) Contes d'Hoffmann

A AaaUnspecified | Alain Vernhes | Béatrice Uria-Monzon | Bryn Terfel | Christian Jean | Désirée Rancatore | Jean-Luc Maurette | Jesús López-Cobos | Josep Miquel Ribot | Michel Sénéchal

Hoffmann is a contemporary fashion victim, afflicted by earnest editors determined to cobble together their definitive ‘original’, and by producers...

Reviewed by mscott rohan in issue: 13/2004

Medtner plays Medtner

Benno Moiseiwitsch | Elisabeth Schwarzkopf | Nicolas Medtner | Oda Slobodskaya | Tatiana Makushina

It was an astute move to begin this disc with the vivacious Round Dance duet, played with great vigour by...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 10/1993

Bruckner Symphony No 3

Günter Wand | Karl Böhm | North German Radio Symphony Orchestra | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

In the recent revised paperback edition of his classic study The Essence of Bruckner (Gollancz: 1992) Robert Simpson argues afresh...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/1993

Schubert Symphonies Nos. 1 and 4; Webern Variations for Orchestra

Hans Zender | South West German Radio Symphony Orchestra

A fascinating idea‚ this – and not just because Webern loved‚ and occasionally orchestrated‚ Schubert’s music. Annotator Josef Häusler writes...

Reviewed in issue 13/2001

Schubert Quartet Transcriptions

(Franz) Liszt Academy of Music Orchestra | (I) Musici de Montreal | János Rolla | Yuli Turovsky

''The weight of Mahler's arrangement,'' says the introduction to the recently-published score, ''rests in the bass part he added to...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 3/1992

Schubert Piano Works

James Lisney

James Lisney’s unusual Schubert recital offers an illuminating programme of lesser-known works, demonstrating the composer’s exploitation of tonal colour and...

Reviewed in issue 2/1996

Schubert Piano Works, Vol.10

Michel Dalberto

When an earlier disc in Dalberto’s complete Schubert cycle came my way (6/94), I admired his poised pianism and sensitive...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1996

Schubert Complete Lieder, Vol.12

Adrian Thompson | Graham Johnson | John Mark Ainsley | Nancy Argenta | Richard Jackson

''The Young Schubert'' is the subtitle in this latest addition to the Schubert Edition. That inevitably means that a few...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1992