St Peter's Singers: One Equal Music

St Peter's Singers (Leeds)

This impressively wide collection of pieces comes from the formidable Leeds-based choir, the St Peter’s Singers, recording in Frank Matcham’s...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 05/2015

Mahler 12 Songs from Das Knaben Wunderhorn

Christian Gerhaher | Cleveland Orchestra | Franz Welser-Möst | Magdalena Kozená | Pierre Boulez

How, I wonder, would Gustav Mahler have reacted to the implied attention-deficit at the quiet start of one of his...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2011

Murray Perahia plays Chopin

The Chopin anniversary year of 2010 understandably saw a maelstrom of Chopin recordings, making selection a tricky and subjective issue....

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 3/2011

BEDROSSIAN Twist. Edges. Epigram

Alejo Pérez | Donatienne Michel-Dansac | Duo Links | Emilio Pomarico | IRCAM | Klangforum Wien | SWR Radio Symphony Orchestra

Who’s afraid of a new ism? In the first decade of the 2000s, along with fellow Paris Conservatoire graduate Raphaël...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 05/2020

Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 2; Paganini Rhapsody

Cécile Licad | Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Claudio Abbado

The 1984 LP was Licad's debut on record, and I share TH's welcome for it. Still only 24, this Manila-born...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 2/1986

Rachmaninov: Works for Piano and Orchestra

Cécile Licad | Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Claudio Abbado | Gary Graffman | Leonard Bernstein | New York Philharmonic Orchestra

To release these identically-coupled mid-price CDs in direct competition with one another CBS must be fairly confident of their merits....

Reviewed in issue 3/1991

Haydn Seven Last Words

Riccardo Muti | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Of the different versions which Haydn made of his unique devotional sequence of Adagio movements, the purely orchestral one presents...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/2001

Debussy Vocal & Orchestral Works

Brigitte Balleys | Claudio Abbado | London Symphony Chorus (amateur) | London Symphony Orchestra | Maria Ewing

The London Symphony Orchestra have rarely sounded so sensuously beautiful on record as in this Debussy collection, bringing together two...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1988

Poulenc and his French Contemporaries

Edward Higginbottom | New College Choir, Oxford | Nicholas Wearne

Apart from Wishart, the composers on the British album are alive, and all, with the exception of Joubert, relatively young....

Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 10/2006

Bizet Carmen

(George) Watson College Boys' Chorus | Alicia Nafé | Ambrosian Singers | Claudio Abbado | Geoffrey Pogson | Gordon Sandison | Ileana Cotrubas | London Symphony Orchestra | Plácido Domingo | Robert Lloyd

This notable recording followed immediately on the famous Faggioni production at the 1977 Edinburgh Festival, a staging finely observed enough...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1988