Schonberg Verklarte Nacht

Artemis Quartet | Thomas Kakuska | Valentin Erben

Recordings of Verklärte Nacht in Schoenberg’s arrangement for string orchestra have always tended to outnumber those of the original version....

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 7/2006

Beethoven Symphonies Nos 7 and 8

Bertrand de Billy | Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra

A robust, spirited coupling, warm in texture overall and with a sensible approach to string vibrato: for example, de Billy...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 8/2010

Gisela May sings Weill

Gisela May | Gundula Sonsalla | Henry Krtschil | Horst Dittmann | Manfred Schmieder | Milan Samko | Siegfried Lotz | Studio orchestra | Werner Eberhardt | Wolfgang Dersch

Gisela May has a formidable reputation as an interpreter of the songs of Brecht and Weill. Long a member of...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 8/1989

Copland Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo

Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra | JoAnn Falletta

This attractive anthology represents Copland the Populist, to quote the title of Tilson Thomas’s stunning set of all three ballets...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 13/2006

Carlo Maria Giulini A Profile

Solomon | Carlo Maria Giulini | Efrem Kurtz | Emmy Loose | Herbert Menges | Kyrill Kondrashin | Leonid Kogan | Paris Conservatoire Orchestra | Paul Kletzki | Philharmonia Orchestra

Old friends from the 1950s and 1960s—some as bright as buttons, others grown pale in the light of fresher successors....

Reviewed in issue 9/1993

Buffo Arias and Duets

Bruno Praticò | Eva Mei | Marcello Viotti | Munich Radio Orchestra

‘Rossini: Buffo Arias and Duets’ is the title of this anthology‚ put together‚ the booklet tells us‚ so as to...

Reviewed in issue 3/2002

Bridge Music for String Quartet

DelmÉ Qt

Frank Bridge's Quartet No. 2, which received a Cobbett prize in 1915, stands with the Cello Sonata (1913-17) as the...

Reviewed in issue 9/1983

Schumann Orchestral Works

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | James Levine

This is one of those discs where it is impossible to consider performance and recorded sound as separate entities. Levine's...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 2/1993

Scarlatti Sonatas

Virginia Black's maiden recording is as impressive as was her London debut a few years ago. She has abundant technique...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 6/1987

Mozart (Le) nozze di Figaro

Angelica Cravcenko | Aulikki Rautawaara | Bruno Walter | Dora Komraek | Esther Réthy | Ezio Pinza | Giuseppe Nessi | Jarmila Novotna | Mariano Stabile | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

This invaluable document is almost as revelatory as the Bolshoi Onegin, also from 1937, that I reviewed in February, and...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/2003