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Haydn Symphonies, Volume 5 - Nos 70-81
Adám Fischer | Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra
The right venue makes all the difference; and Nimbus was right to choose the Haydnsaal at Schloss Eisenstadt because the...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 12/2000
Berg Lulu
Like three of its five predecessors, Tate's recording of Lulu was recorded live, during three performances at the Theatre...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 1/1993
BRITTEN War Requiem
Here is a legendary historical document to follow those 2013 War Requiem recordings reviewed above. A mythology has grown up...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 12/2013
Verdi Don Carlo
The superlative talents assembled nere are probably a little too heterogeneous for an ideal performance, even if all were ideally...
Reviewed in issue 12/1988
Haydn Symphonies Nos 97 & 102
Adám Fischer | Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra
Adám Fischer’s often memorable 1980s Nimbus cycle of Haydn’s London Symphonies (available on Brilliant Classics) was rather compromised by moments...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2007
J.Strauss Die Fledermaus. New Year Concert 1951
In many respects this classic version of Strauss's evergreen operetta has never been, and is unlikely to be, surpassed. It...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1992
Wagner Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Compact Disc only goes to conform what a true and natural recording this has always been, with an ideal balance...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1985
Britten War Requiem
It is specially welcome to have historic recordings like this available in the new medium of CD. Even when Simon...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/1985
Verdi Macbeth
This was the first integral recording of the work; also notable for the taut, idiomatic and refined conducting of Gardelli,...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1994
Wagner Der fliegende Holländer
When Philip Hope-Wallace first reviewed the Sawallisch/Bayreuth set back in 1962 he suggested that you had to choose between the...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1994
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