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SCHUBERT Song Cycles
Helmut Deutsch | Hermann Prey | Leonard Hokanson
A visually rather low grade reissue – no Blu ray magic broom here – of three Vienna studio films made...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 03/2017
BACH St Matthew Passion
John Nelson describes the St Matthew Passion as ‘the pinnacle of musical civilisation’ in a persuasive documentary which accompanies his...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 07/2013
Dvorák Violin Concerto. Suk Fantasy
Gabriela Demeterová | Libor Pesek | Prague Symphony Orchestra
Refreshingly clean-cut, unusually mobile readings of both works from Gabriela Demeterova, enthusiastically partnered by Libor Pesek and his responsive Prague...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 7/1999
Rare French Works
Philippe Graffin | Thierry Fischer | Ulster Orchestra
‘Rare’ is doubly true: the quality of the playing here deserves that adjective. Until I heard Philippe Graffin play Fauré’s...
Reviewed in issue 5/2002
Britten Opera excerpts and Folksongs
Richard Abram of EMI is to be congratulated on assembling this fascinating and historically essential document. Andrew Walter and Paul...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1994
Domingo Opera Classics
These two offerings once again demonstrate the breadth of Domingo's repertory extending from Handel to Wagner and Boito, and encompassing...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1994
Schubert Complete Lieder, Vol.20
Ian Bostridge's singing of the Kosegarten setting Geist der Liebe, in praise of the spirit of love, marks him out...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1994
BARBER Historical Recordings 1935-60
A treasure-trove of historic Barber recordings. The earliest and one of the best known is his own performance of Dover...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue:
Schumann/Franck Orchestral Works
Annie Fischer | New Philharmonia Orchestra | Otto Klemperer | Philharmonia Orchestra
It's difficult to find adjectives other than the well worn 'craggy' and 'rough hewn' to describe the cut of Klemperer's...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 10/1992
Beethoven Funeral Cantata; Mass in C
The Cantata is an astonishing work for a teenager. Beethoven wrote it in 1790 when he was 19, producing a...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/2009
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