The Hussey Legacy

Andrew Lumsden | Christopher Scott | Finzi Singers | Paul Spicer | Stephen Coombs

Here is a disc commendable on at least three counts. First, the Finzi Singers are the best small spedalized choir...

Reviewed in issue 3/1989

Sophie Bevan: Songs of Vain Glory

Sebastian Wybrew | Sophie Bevan

This collection of English songs (in this instance songs in English, since it contains two songs by Americans) is a...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 04/2018

Britten Billy Budd

Almost two decades after Humphrey Carpenter’s controversial biography of Britten, opera directors have woken up to some of its revelations....

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 9/2011

Mozart Symphonies

Karl Böhm | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Writing about Bohm's LP performance of No. 39, RG criticized the finale for its lack of geniality. When I heard...

Reviewed in issue 5/1985

Bomsori: Violin On Stage

Bomsori Kim | Giancarlo Guerrero | NFM Wroclaw Philharmonic

Like so many musicians trapped in the midst of the Covid pandemic, the young South Korean violinist Bomsori Kim has...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2021

Shawn (The) Music Teacher

The CD booklet calls The Music Teacher an opera, but when this collaboration between composer Allen Shawn and his brother,...

Reviewed by Lawrence Johnson in issue: 9/2008

Sibelius Piano Miniatures

Håvard Gimse

Towards the end of October 1920, the debt-ridden Sibelius was forced to embark upon yet another clutch of pot-boilers in...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2004

Onslow Piano Quintet & Sextet

Ensemble Concertant, Frankfurt | Gianluca Luisi

Born in Clermont-Ferrand, the Anglo-French George Onslow (1784‑1853), grandson of the first Lord Onslow, spent almost all his life in...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 7/2007

Rütti - Veni Creator Spiritus

Anne Page | Cambridge Singers | Cambridge Voices | Ian Moore

Born in 1949, Carl Rutti has become known outside his native Switzerland principally as the composer of choral music, including...

Reviewed in issue 3/1999

The Complete C W Orr Songbook Vols 1 & 2

Mark Stone | Simon Lepper

Charles Wilfred Orr, born in 1893, has been described as ‘the unsung hero of English song’. He began his academic...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/2012