Foss Griffelkin

Aaron Engebreth | Ann Carolyn Bird | Anne Harley | Back Bay Chorale | Boston Children's Opera | Boston Modern Orchestra Project | Children's Chorus | David M Cushing | Drew Poling | Elizabeth Keusch

This is the first recording of an unknown work – a full-length children’s opera commissioned by NBC TV in the wake of...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 7/2003

Blow Vocal Works

Alfred Deller | Deller Consort | Mark Deller | Maurice Bevan | Philip Todd | Stour Music Festival Chamber Orchestra

This is a collector's item, a recording no doubt adored in its day and an important document in the revival...

Reviewed in issue 1/1989

RICORDI Carnaval Vénitien

Gabriella Morelli | Giancarlo Simonacci

Most readers of Gramophone will have heard the name Ricordi, the great Italian music publisher. How many though, I wonder,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2016

Early Birds

From the hyperactive nightingale in Pietro Torri’s opera Ismene at the start to her impatient sister as portrayed by Telemann...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: AW13

Ligeti String Quartets 1 & 2

Arditti Qt

The Wergo booklet carries a photograph of a twinkling-eyed Ligeti peering over a writing-stand like Mr Chad—the image suits his...

Reviewed in issue 8/1989

Messiaen Organ Works

Thomas Trotter

I much admired at least two of Trotter’s CDs for Argo, especially his Liszt double-bill with the Ad nos and...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 8/1996

Mozart/Busoni Complete Piano Transcriptions

Marco Vincenzi

This is the first time anyone has put all Busoni’s Mozart-based compositions for solo piano on a single disc, though...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 2/2007

REUSNER 'Delitiae testudinis' (William Carter)

William Carter

I’m not sure how much William Carter knows about necromancy or quantum physics. But the search for meaning through communicating...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 07/2022

ORR Songs

Buxton Orr | Edinburgh Quartet (members of) | Iain Burnside | Jordan Black | Nicky Spence | Nikita Naumov

The finely crafted, urgently communicative music of Glasgow-born Buxton Orr (1924 97) has not yet received due recognition, so all...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 05/2017

Schütz Resurrection

London Schütz Choir | Peter Pears | Roger Norrington

Schutz's sacred histories are very difficult to make convincing. The reason must surely be (inspite of the sleeve-note of the...

Reviewed in issue 5/1985