Tito Schipa (1889-1965) - I

(Anonymous) Orchestra | Amelita Galli-Curci | Lucrezia Bori | Rosario Bourdon | Tito Schipa

The Master. And yes: despite questionings (mine as well as yours, you who listen with independent ears, unintimidated by legend...

Reviewed in issue 9/1998

Sergiu Celibidache Conducts Ravel & Debussy

Munich Philharmonic Orchestra | Sergiu Celibidache

You can find sound records of the same Debussy items from a month later in identically cultivated performances as part...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 8/2008

Brahms Historic Chamber Music Recordings

Emanuel Bay | Emanuel Feuermann | Gerald Moore | Jascha Heifetz | Theo Van der Pas | William Primrose

This collection has been well devised, since Heifetz rather surprisingly didn't re-record the Second Violin Sonata, and only Primrose recorded...

Reviewed in issue 6/1990

Haydn Paris Symphonies

Pulling no punches, Kristjan Järvi and his crack Viennese band perform Haydn’s six “Paris” Symphonies as if they were playing...

Reviewed by lvittes in issue: 12/2009

Schnittke Symphony No 2

Marina Katsman | Oleg Dolgov | Russian State Symphonic Cappella | Russian State Symphony Orchestra | Sergei Veprintsev | Valéry Polyansky | Yaroslav Zdorov

Inspired by a visit to Bruckner’s resting-place at St Florian, Schnittke’s Second Symphony is his attempt at a Symphony-cum-Mass. The...

Reviewed in issue 6/1997

Elgar Sacred Choral Works

Allan Clayton | Benjamin Durrant | Christopher Robinson | Jonathan Vaughn | Ronan Collett | St John's College Choir, Cambridge

Elgar was the composer whose work introduced many of us to that of Christopher Robinson, and he in turn helped...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 8/2004

Verdi (La) Traviata

Arturo La Porta | Cesare Valletti | Coro del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma | Dario Caselli | Glauco Scarlini | Leonard Warren | Leonardo Monreale | Lydia Marimpietri | Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma | Pierre Monteux

This version, admired by cognoscenti, has too long been lost in limbo, victim in the late 1950s of the break-up...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/2005

Ferdinand Schubert: Sacred Choral Works

Bernadette Degelin | Kurt Widmer | Louis Devos | Lucienne Van Deyck | Maastricht Conservatorium Chamber Choir | Musica Polyphonica | Zeger Vandersteene

Until the arrival of this disc, practically all I knew about Ferdinand Schubert was that he had tended his younger...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 7/1988

Amarcord - Madrigals

Ensemble Amarcord

The term “madrigal” is used loosely in this collection of 16th-century songs in several languages. Here are many familiar “hits”,...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 6/2007

Britten Orchestral Works

Andrew Davis | BBC Symphony Orchestra

It is good to see that the BBC Symphony Orchestra is making regular visits to the recording studio with its...

Reviewed in issue 8/1991