Britten War Requiem

Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford | City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra | City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Chorus | Elisabeth Söderström | Robert Tear | Simon Rattle | Thomas Allen

It is hard to realize that Benjamin Britten's authoritative reading on Decca—a set which became a classical best-seller on both...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/1983

Holst (The) Planets; Egdon Heath, Op. 47

Andrew Davis | BBC Symphony Chorus (Women's Voices) | BBC Symphony Orchestra

And still they come! No doubt spurred into action by Naxos’s phenomenal success‚ the majors‚ it seems‚ are falling over...

Reviewed in issue 10/2001

Wagner Lohengrin

Bavarian Radio Chorus | Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra | Gerd Nienstedt | Gundula Janowitz | Gwyneth Jones | James King | Karl Ridderbusch | Rafael Kubelík | Thomas Stewart

Lohengrin has fared reasonably well on disc. I have listed above the better of the sets currently available, and none...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1996

Meyerbeer/Rossini Songs

Geoffrey Parsons | Thomas Hampson

Rossini and his old friend Meyerbeer would have been charmed and gratified by this marvellous song recital by Thomas Hampson...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 4/1992

Beethoven; Schubert; Schumann Piano Works

Oleg Kagan | Sviatoslav Richter

BBC Legends’ invaluable issue of a recital given at the Royal Festival Hall in 1963 offers still further evidence of...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 13/2003

Furtwängler in Stockholm

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra | Wilhelm Furtwängler

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 3/1997

Sviatoslav Richter - Salzburg Festival 1977

Sviatoslav Richter

To say we’re spoiled for choice with live Richter recitals would be something of an understatement. Even so, this one...

Reviewed in issue 1/1999

Wagner Lohengrin

A AaaUnspecified | Bavarian Radio Orchestra | Bayreuth Festival Orchestra | Eugen Jochum

I earnestly wish I could have been at Bayreuth on the evening of the 1954 Festival when the Eugen Jochum...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/2005

JS BACH Goldberg Variations

Lars Vogt

I’ve enjoyed this disc a lot and return to complete playings of it with pleasure. That says much about the...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: AW2015

OFFENBACH The Operas & Operettas Collection

Offenbach’s music is wicked’, said George Bernard Shaw. ‘It is abandoned stuff; every accent is a snap of the fingers...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2019