M. Haydn St Francis Mass; Sigismondo Requiem

(Franz) Liszt Chamber Orchestra | Helmuth Rilling | Hungarian Radio and Television Chorus | Ibolya Verebics | József Moldvay | Judit Németh | Martin Klietmann

Cheerful isn't quite the word you might expect to find describing a disc containing a Mass and a Requiem. But...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 3/1990

Brahms & Schumann String Quartets

Vogler Qt

Given the stature of these two composers, their string quartets are not well known, and I guess that for every...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 9/1993

Britten Cello Works

Tim Hugh

Let comparison with Rostropovich (Decca) be disposed of first. There is no comparison. Notwithstanding the excellence of these young British...

Reviewed in issue 6/1988

Rosa Ponselle On the Air 1934-36

(Anonymous) Orchestra | André Kostelanetz | Rosa Ponselle

In the 1930s, at the height of the Depression, with millions unemployed, the Americans weren’t going to the opera very...

Reviewed in issue /2000

Turnage Three Screaming Popes

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra | Simon Rattle

The British Composers series from EMI is treading warily as far as living composers are concerned; but now, within a...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 9/1992

Pergolesi Sacred Choral Works

(I) Solisti dell' Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala | Anna Caterina Antonacci | Barbara Frittoli | Riccardo Muti

Here is a disc that can be passed over in less time than it takes to pass on the advice....

Reviewed in issue 3/1997

Handel Acis and Galatea

(The) Scholars Baroque Ensemble | Angus Davidson | David van Asch | Kym Amps | Robin Doveton

Acis and Galatea was probably originally written for just five singers and seven players, to perform at the Chandos mansion...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 1/1999

Schubert Piano Sonatas

Naum Grubert

Having supplied no biographical information about Naum Grubert with his Liszt release (1/89), the same company now tells us that,...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 7/1992

Schubert Complete Lieder, Vol.17

Graham Johnson | Lucia Popp

A word first this time about the singer rather than the song. Miraculously the passing years have dealt kindly with...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1993

A Harpsichord Recital from Traquair House

The harpsichord, a richly and sizzlingly resonant Ruckers of 1651, is situated in Traquair House, the oldest inhabited house in...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 12/1986