Arie Antiche Bartoli

Cecilia Bartoli | György Fischer

The aria anticha has at last shaken off any remaining Cinderella rags, and been swept off to the party. Cecilia...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 12/1992

Donizetti Linda di Chamounix

Adám Fischer | Armando Ariostini | Cornelia Kallisch | Deon van der Walt | Edita Gruberová | Jacob Will | László Polgár | Miroslav Christoff | Nadine Asher | Zurich Opera House Chorus

Fs¬?:?I>, Donizetti’s first commission for Vienna’s Kärntnertor Theatre, contains some of his finest and most touching music, unfortunately tied to...

Reviewed by mscott rohan in issue: 5/2003

Furtwängler conducts Bach & Beethoven

Josef Niedermayer | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra | Wilhelm Furtwängler | Willi Boskovsky

Furtwangler’s August 1950 Salzburg Festival recreation of the Fifth Brandenburg Concerto is a thing of extraordinary beauty, even though it...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 4/2001

Schubert Complete Lieder, Vol.27

Christine Schäfer | Graham Johnson | Matthias Görne

Can this really be Vol. 27 of this astonishing project? It seems only yesterday that it began and now it...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1997

SCHUBERT Lieder

Florian Boesch | Malcolm Martineau

‘Slow and soft’ were dominant epithets in David Patrick Stearns’s review of Florian Boesch’s earlier Schubert recital (Hyperion, 3/14). In...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2016

Debussy; Turina Orchestral Works

Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra | Jesús López-Cobos

There are great classic analogue recordings of Ibéria from Reiner (RCA‚ 1/90R)‚ Haitink (Philips‚ 3/94)‚ and Paray (Mercury‚ 6/95R)‚...

Reviewed in issue 3/2002

Organs of Mexico, Volume 3

Sallinen's operas and symphonies have stolen the limelight in recent years at the expense of other works fully worthy of...

Reviewed in issue 11/1985

Penderecki Works for Cellos and Orchestra

Penderecki’s Sonata for cello and orchestra (1964) embodies his transition from the turbulent texturalism of his earliest works to the...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/2008

SCHUBERT Lieder (Philippe Jaroussky)

Jérôme Ducros | Philippe Jaroussky

Following a 2020 Wigmore Hall recital devoted to Schubert and rapturous response to his Schubert song videos uploaded to social...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 01/2025

Heinrich Schlusnus Lieder Album, Vol.1

Alois Melichar | Berlin State Opera Orchestra | Franz Rupp | Heinrich Schlusnus | Hermann Weigert

Every time one returns to the records of Schlusnus one marvels anew at the velvety, seamless quality of his voice....

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1994