Arnold Orchestral Wks

Carl Raven | Esther Ingham | John Turner | Manchester Sinfonia | Nicholas Ward | Northern Chamber Orchestra | Raphael Wallfisch | Richard Howarth

Two meaty offerings from opposite ends of Sir Malcom Arnold’s career top and tail this stimulating Naxos anthology. Composer and...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2011

Monteverdi Le Passioni dell'anima

Concerto Italiano | Rinaldo Alessandrini

Rinaldo Alessandrini has always taken risks, and mostly they have paid off. Here he shows characteristic courage in deciding to...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 3/2000

Mozart Serenade; March

Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra | Ton Koopman

There is little music, I think, that offers such unsullied delight as the last two of Mozart's big celebratory serenades,...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 2/1990

Granados Goyescas

Tom Kerstens is one of today’s more adventurous guitarists. Not content with a disc entirely devoted to the music of...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 10/2008

Handel Alcina

(Les) Arts Florissants Chorus | (Les) Arts Florissants Orchestra | Juanita Lascarro | Kathleen Kuhlmann | Laurent Naouri | Natalie Dessay | Renée Fleming | Susan Graham | Timothy Robinson | William Christie

There were already two Alcina recordings in the catalogue that no Handelian would want to be without; and now there...

Reviewed by hcanning in issue: 3/2000

Cornelius Choral Works

Danielle Borst | Frédéric Vassar | Jacqueline Mayeur | Jean-Luc Viala | Jörg Straube | Michel Piquemal | North German Figural Choir | South West France Regional Choir | South West France Regional Orchestra

Peter Cornelius is overdue for a reappraisal, especially in England. Though the scores of his operas Gunlod and Der Cid...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 4/1990

Brahms; Haydn; Schubert String Quartets

Amadeus Quartet

Although widely considered a DG ‘house’ ensemble, the Amadeus Quartet started and ended its recording career with Decca (Priaulx Rainier’s...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 4/2004

Mozart Clarinet & Bassoon Concertos

Edmond de Stoutz | Klaus Thunemann | Thomas Friedli | Zurich Chamber Orchestra

Klaus Thunemann, who was born in 1937, originally—so the information on this new record tells us— ''aimed at the career...

Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 3/1983

Andriessen M is for Man, Music & Mozart

Asko Ensemble | Astrid Seriese | Gertrude Thoma | Jurjen Hempel | Orkest de Volharding | Reinbert de Leeuw | Schönberg Ensemble

The Dutch composer Louis Andriessen (b. 1939) may have embraced minimalism as the fundamental feature of his mature musical language...

Reviewed in issue 2/1995

Abel 6 Symphonies, Op 10

(La) Stagione | Anthony Halstead | Hanover Band | Michael Schneider

Carl Friedrich Abel was born in Cothen, son of a member of Bach's group there, the year Bach left; possibly,...

Reviewed in issue 7/1995