Karlowicz Orchestral Works

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra | Gianandrea Noseda

This second BBC Philharmonic Karowicz disc complements the first (10/02) with three earlier works. Not that there are any late,...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 5/2004

Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet: excs

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Esa-Pekka Salonen

Anyone looking for a single-disc selection from Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet—his most masterly score need look no further than this...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 8/1988

Gabriela Montero - Baroque

Judging from her booklet-notes, Gabriela Montero holds her carefree, unplanned, “take one” improvisational modus operandi dear. Yet much of her...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 5/2008

Dvorák/Janácek/Martinu Songs

Gabriela Benacková | Rudolf Firkusný

Here is a record of great and rare beauty: rare, that is, in the nature of the repertoire, in the...

Reviewed in issue 1/1994

Respighi Orchestral Works

Evgeni Svetlanov | French National Orchestra | London Symphony Orchestra | USSR State Symphony Orchestra

When it comes to reviewing vintage live per- formances, ‘being there’ can occasionally cloud one’s judgement. However, in the case...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 9/2003

Gluck Orfeo ed Euridice

(La) Grande Ecurie et La Chambre du Roy | Claron McFadden | James Bowman | Jean-Claude Malgoire | Lynne Dawson | Namur Chamber Choir

Recordings of Orfeo, in one or another of its several guises, have been flowing freely from the record companies just...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 1/1995

GLUCK Orfeo ed Euridice

Accentus Chamber Choir | Emmanuelle De Negri | Franco Fagioli | Insula Orchestra | Laurence Equilbey | Malin Hartelius

This new recording of Gluck’s most influential opera is also Franco Fagioli’s first release for DG since since he signed...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2015

Schubert, Dvorák & Borodin String Quartets

Quartetto Italiano

At last, the Dvorak American I've valued above all the more recent issues returns on CD, and in a very...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 3/1989

Grieg Orchestral Works

Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra | Dmitri Kitaenko

Grieg was at one time conductor of the orchestra in his home town, and it would be pleasing to report...

Reviewed in issue 9/1993

Russian Orchestral Works

Leonard Slatkin | St Louis Symphony Orchestra

When it comes to assessing the sound of a record, first impressions are often most reliable, for we all know...

Reviewed in issue 12/1983