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Mozart Die Entführung aus dem Serail
Let me begin by looking on the positive side of things. Talvela is a gloriously rotund, relishing Osmin, brandishing his...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1987
Englund Epinikia; Symphonies 2 and 4
The best-known Finnish symphonists of the post-Sibelius and post-Madetoja generation are Kokkonen and Sallinen—and perhaps one might possibly add to...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 8/1992
Schoenberg Moses und Aron
“Serial Verdi” - a would-be crushing put-down aimed at Schoenberg's 12-note opera from the post-war avant-garde - might actually be...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 1/2007
Perlman Rediscovered
Amazing to think that in 1965, with a violinist of Itzhak Perlman’s calibre on its books, RCA shelved what was...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2004
Mozart Opera Arias (arr for flute & string trio)
Vienna Volksoper Mozart Ensemble
The Bohemian musician and composer Johann Went (or Jan Wendt) was a wind player in the Imperial Harmonie (wind band)...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/1999
Mozart Die Entführung aus dem Serail
''Too many notes, my dear Mozart'', said the Emperor Joseph II—well, he probably didn't in reality, but the apocryphal story...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 11/1991
Mozart Die Entführung aus dem Serail
There is much to admire in this typically well-prepared and positive reading from Gardiner and his team, but as a...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1992
Peuerl Leider, Suites and Canzonas
Armonico Tributo Austria | Lorenz Duftschmid
Paul Peuerl was a Protestant organist and composer active in Austria in the early 17th century. (Rudolf Flotzinger’s very thorough...
Reviewed in issue 3/2002
Handel Saul
No recording of Saul has it all, but Helmuth Rilling has a trump card in Daniel Taylor, whose honey-toned David...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 2/2008
Amiot Mess des Jésuites de Pékin
A second release from XVIII-21 of the music of the Jesuit missionaries in China, this time joined by Chinese musicians...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 4/1999
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