Verdi Rigoletto

Alan Opie | Arthur Davies | English National Opera Chorus | English National Opera Orchestra | Helen Field | Jean Rigby | John Rawnsley | John Tomlinson | Linda McLeod | Mark Elder

Since this version first appeared on LP, the production from which it derives has achieved a kind of legendary status....

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1989

Panufnik String Quartets

Chilingirian Qt | Roger Chase | Stephen Orton

Although Andrzej Panufnik's three string quartets are relatively late works, the second of them—subtitled Messages—is actually a delayed musical reaction...

Reviewed in issue 12/1993

Prokofiev Chout

Cologne Symphony Orchestra | Michail Jurowski

While much of Europe was convulsed by the Great War, Prokofiev was composing a ballet to a grotesquely comic folk-tale...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 6/2004

Gibbons Organ and Choral Works

Christopher Robinson | Robert Woolley | St John's College Choir, Cambridge

In his time reputedly known as ''the best finger of that age'', Gibbons wrote for the organ with an expertise...

Reviewed in issue 11/1994

Lalo Symphonie espagnole; Saint-Saëns Violin Concerto 1

Charles Dutoit | Kyung Wha Chung | Montreal Symphony Orchestra

Kyung Wha Chung's bright, alert and intense reading comes over the more incisively on CD. The fullness of the Montreal...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/1984

Mozart? Volume 6

Consortium Classicum

Consortium Classicum’s Mozart series continues to provide fascinating and entertaining glimpses into the byways of classical music. The bassoonist J....

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 10/1999

Rawsthorne String Quartets

David Angel | Laurence Jackson | Maggini Qt

The Maggini Quartet’s tireless exploration of the British string quartet repertoire continues in fine style with this indispensable anthology devoted...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2006

Vivaldi Violin Concertos

Amsterdam Combattimento Consort | Jaap Van Zweden | Jan Willem de Vriend

This is a very attractive disc of violin concertos by Vivaldi. And they have been carefully chosen, furthermore, not just...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 8/1993

Rameau Suites from Operas

These two suites of airs de ballet from Rameau's Dardanus and Les Indes galantes were recorded during the 1960s when...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 8/1993

Sibelius Pelleas and Melisande

Tapiola Sinfonietta | Tuomas Ollila-Hannikainen

Don’t let the low opus number hoodwink you: Cassazione in fact dates from 1904 and was first given under Sibelius’s...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2000