Kodály Orchestral Works

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra | Yan Pascal Tortelier

The obvious question here, given the close relationship between Bartok and Kodaly, is how the two composers’ Concertos for Orchestra...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 8/2000

Bach Das Wohltempirte Klavier, Book 2

Keith Jarrett

If, as I do, you enjoy Bach's 48 Preludes and Fugues played on a variety of keyboard instruments, then Keith...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 9/1991

Schumann Lieder

How interesting to compare, in Dichterliebe, Blochwitz with the newly reissued Wunderlich on DG. Although the younger tenor claims to...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1990

HENZE Das Floß der Medusa (The Raft of the Medusa)

Camilla Nylund | Freiburg Cathedral Boys' Choir | Peter Schone | Peter Stein | South West German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Baden-Baden and Freiburg | SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart | West German Radio Chorus

This beautifully prepared recording issues the most compelling if belated of invitations to consider afresh a seminal work of the...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2020

Stéphane Degout: Epic

Simon Lepper | Stéphane Degout

Though never just another pretty baritone voice, Stéphane Degout takes his dramatic sensibility to a new level in this ‘Lieder...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 05/2020

Schumann Lieder

Christoph Eschenbach | Peter Schreier

Here is another important issue to confirm Peter Schreier as king among Lieder interpreters today. It seems that he is...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1991

Lieder: Berg, Schumann, Wolf, Shostakovich, Brahms (Matthias Goerne)

Matthias Goerne

The transience of human existence is the leitmotif of Matthias Goerne’s latest recital, charting a journey from sleep and oblivion...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2022

Barbara Hannigan: Sehnsucht - Berg & Mahler

Barbara Hannigan | Camerata RCO | Rolf Verbeek

Has anyone else directed Mahler’s Fourth Symphony while singing the finale from the podium? Surely not … but the present...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2022

Jonas Frølund: Solo Alone and More

Jonas Frølund

Here’s a novelty: an album of solo clarinet works, written – or arranged – for a variety of instruments and...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 10/2023

BORGSTRØM Fiskeren (Boye Hansen)

Eli Kristin Hanssveen | Gregg Santa | Ingebjørg Kosmo | Ketil Hugaas | Kjell Magnus Sandve | Njål Sparbo | Norwegian National Opera Chorus | Norwegian National Opera Orchestra | Terje Boye Hansen | Thor Inge Falch

I’m all for full-scale operas that clock in under 90 minutes. And that’s far from the only good thing about...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 03/2024