Gluck Orphée

Bavarian Radio Chorus | Charles Bruck | French Radio Chorus | French Radio Lyric Orchestra | Jolanta Kaufman | Leopold Hager | Lucia Popp | Marjana Lipovsek | Munich Radio Orchestra | Rita Gorr

What we badly need is an Orfeo conducted by Gardiner to match the dramatic authenticity of his Iphigenie en Tauride...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1988

Richter from the Archives - Chopin

Sviatoslav Richter

Here is Richter ‘from the archives’ in 1950, aged 35, offering invaluable evidence of his early astounding range and mastery,...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 9/2003

Boccherini Sonatas for Cello and Continuo

Elizabeth Kenny | Ruth Alford | Sebastian Comberti

Mysteries abound. There are 32 cello sonatas in the Gérard catalogue of 1969‚ and though they have been authenticated‚ not...

Reviewed in issue 10/2001

Wolf Italienisches Liederbuch

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Elisabeth Schwarzkopf | Erik Werba | Gerald Moore | Irmgard Seefried

Wolf himself stated that the Italian Songbook is ''the most original and artistically consummate of all my works'' and he...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1990

Myaskovsky Symphonies Nos 1 & 25

Evgeni Svetlanov | Russian Federation Academic Symphony Orchestra

Health permitting‚ Neeme Järvi may yet produce his promised Miaskovsky intégrale‚ but the Olympia label has pre­empted that project by...

Reviewed in issue 4/2002

Torke Book of Proverbs

Argo Band | Catherine Bott | Edo de Waart | Kurt Ollmann | Michael Torke | Netherlands Radio Choir | Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra | Valdine Anderson

You would have to go a long way to find music as communicative and as uplifting as Michael Torke’s. What’s...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 12/2000

French Organ Works

Having been assistant organist at Ely Cathedral since 1989 Jeremy Filsell is in a unique position to know what this...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 3/1992

Barber; Gershwin Piano Concertos

Abbott Ruskin | Berlin Symphony Orchestra | David Epstein | Eugene List | MIT Symphony Orchestra | Samuel Adler

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 5/1993

Rossini (Une) larme

Ensemble Explorations | Roel Dieltiens

Where aural devilry is concerned, Paganini or Berlioz come to mind ahead of Rossini. No longer. This sonically challenging collection...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/2004

Petersen Speelstukken

Rare Fruits Council

David Petersen’s Speelstukken (literally, “pieces to play”) are a curious set of 12 virtuoso violin sonatas published in Amsterdam in...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/1998