Zemlinsky Lyric Symphony

Bohumil Gregor | Czech Philharmonic Orchestra | Iván Kusnjer | Karan Armstrong

Comparing the first few vocal phrases in these two performances, I began to suspect that, for once, Fischer-Dieskau would not...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/1991

From the Ground Up: The Chaconne

Hugo Ticciati clearly delights in the elusive. His biography, unlike those of his colleagues, does not mention a single orchestra...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 07/2019

Schubert Winterreise

Konrad Richter | Robert Holl

When Robert Holl sang Winterreise with Schiff at the piano in London's Wigmore Hall last year Bernard Levin wrote in...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1989

SCHUBERT '21 Songs' (Alice Coote)

Alice Coote | Julius Drake

The challenge of any Schubert recital is translating all that is implied by his miniature masterworks into a keyhole view...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2022

Frank Martin Orchestral Works

Anthony Newman | Astuko Sato | Claudia Hoca | Daniel Goldberg | David Kossoff | Elizabeth Brown | Kenneth Finn | Maya Gunji | Michael Hinton | Morton Gould

No quarrels with these performances, which are lively and expert enough even if the strings are a little wanting in...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 3/1994

Golden Ring Documentary

Birgit Nilsson | Georg Solti | Hans Hotter | Kirsten Flagstad | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra | Wolfgang Windgassen

One of the classic music documentaries comes to DVD – classic‚ both in itself and in its subject. Alec Robertson in...

Reviewed in issue 9/2002

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Volume 2

François-Frédéric Guy

Here is an antidote to the identikit Beethoven, to sonatas (and even cycles) recorded merely because an artist will sell....

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW/2012

Schoeck Notturno

Christian Gerhaher | Rosamunde Quartet

Notturno is described not as a song-cycle but as “Five movements for string quartet and voice”. All but one of...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 0/0

Schubert Die Verschworenen, D787

(Das) Neue Orchester | Andreas Fischer | Anke Hoffmann | Chorus Musicus | Christian Dahm | Christoph Spering | Iris Kupke | Lisa Larsson | Marion Steingötter | Mechthild Georg

The Viennese dramatist, Ignaz Castelli, wrote Die Verschworenen (“The Conspirators”) as a riposte to complaints that there were no good...

Reviewed in issue 2/1997

Offenbach Les Contes d'Hoffmann

(René) Duclos Choir | André Cluytens | Christiane Gayraud | Elisabeth Schwarzkopf | Ernst Blanc | George London | Gianna d' Angelo | Jean-Christoph Benoit | Jean-Pierre Laffage | Michel Sénéchal

If there is one thing certain about a comparative review of Les contes d'Hoffmann, it must be that it will...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 12/1989