Gods and Monsters Original Soundtrack

The first thing Burwell is to be congratulated on is the complete absence of horror music. Musically representing director James...

Reviewed by ptonks in issue: 5/1999

Wagner Der Fliegende Holländer

Ben Heppner | Birgitta Svendén | Deborah Voigt | James Levine | James Morris | Jan-Hendrik Rootering | New York Metropolitan Opera Chorus | New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra | Paul Groves

The ways of record companies are sometimes puzzling. This set was recorded three years ago just at the time Decca...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1997

Mozart Wind Quintets & Quartet

Bohuslav Zahradník | Frantisek Langweil | Jirí Krejcí | Panocha Qt

Each of these three chamber works has the kind of quality that one expects from the mature Mozart, and although...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 1/1992

Sibelius Kullervo

Colin Davis | London Symphony Chorus (amateur) | London Symphony Orchestra | Monica Groop | Peter Mattei

‘A blistering performance,’ was how The Guardian described this account of Kullervo, caught on the wing at the Barbican last...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/2006

Hindemith Complete Flute Music; Höller Flute Sonatas

Jordi Masó | Xavier Relats

I suppose this is bound to be regarded as a disc of flute music by Hindemith‚ with some fill­ups by...

Reviewed in issue 3/2002

Tancredi Pasero (1893-1983) - II

(Anonymous) Orchestra | Antonio Sabino | Dick Marzollo | EIAR Orchestra | Gina Bernelli | Gino Bechi | Luigi Ricci | Milan La Scala Orchestra | Rome Teatro Reale Opera Orchestra | Symphony Orchestra

Italy's principal resident bass in the 1930s and 1940s was eclipsed in the larger world view by their leading export...

Reviewed in issue 4/1995

Dancla Sonata No 1; Massenet Meditation; Saint-Saëns Petite Ecole de la Melodie

Cristina Canziani | Guido Rimonda

It may seem odd having Saint-Saëns coupled with a sequence of pieces by Charles Dancla, but the mixture works well...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/2009

Stanford Symphony No 3; Irish Rhapsody No 5

Ulster Orchestra | Vernon Handley

In the mythology of English music, Stanford is the Brahmsian Old Testament that Elgar was sent to sweep away with...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 1/1988

Verdi Aida

Elvira Galassi | Fedora Barbieri | Franco Ricciardi | Giuseppe Modesti | Maria Callas | Milan La Scala Chorus | Milan La Scala Orchestra | Nicola Zaccaria | Richard Tucker | Tito Gobbi

If you want Aida as music-theatre, this is undoubtedly the set to have. On none of the rival sets on...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1987

Zemlinsky Symphony 2; Psalm 23

Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra | Ernst-Senff Chamber Chorus | Riccardo Chailly

This is the second recording of Zemlinsky's so-called Second Symphony (in fact his Third, though only two movements of the...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 3/1989