Vaughan Williams Five Mystical Songs; On Wenlock Edge

Anthony Rolfe Johnson | Duke Quartet | Graham Johnson | Simon Keenlyside

Safely stowed, another derelict from the Collins English song series comes aboard the well-stocked Naxos vessel, bound, we’ll hope, for...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/2003

Boulez; Kurtag; Schoeller Chamber Works

Garth Knox | Nicholas Isherwood | Pascal Gallois | Sarah O'Brien

The other woodwind instruments have had their avant-garde champions, so why not the bassoon? French virtuoso Pascal Gallois, one-time member...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 4/2003

Rautavaara Works for Violin and Piano

Paavali Jumppanen | Pekka Kuusisto

Rautavaara’s music for violin and piano occupies a byway in his output, with no really outstanding work like a sonata....

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2011

Beethoven Fidelio

Ashley Catling | Christine Brewer | Christopher Purves | David Parry | Geoffrey Mitchell Choir | Pavlo Hunka | Peter Wedd | Philharmonia Orchestra | Rebecca Evans | Richard Margison

On a musical level this is a worthy addition to Chandos’s Opera in English series. David Parry launches the reading...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/2005

Bordesholm Lament of the Virgin Mary

Sequentia

Thanks are due to Sequentia for bringing to life something quite unique. The Bordesholm Marienklange is a late (1475-6) medieval...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 12/1993

Mozart Sinfonia Concertante

Camerata Strad | Igor Oistrakh | Valeri Oistrakh

Igor Oistrakh’s 1963 studio recording of Mozart’s noble E flat Sinfonia concertante with his father David on viola was one...

Reviewed in issue 9/2002

Mascagni L'Amico Fritz

L’amico Fritz, Mascagni’s second opera, was intended to complement Cavalleria rusticana. That was bloody melodrama; this would be lyrical comedy....

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/2009

Wagner (Das) Rheingold

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Brigitte Fassbaender | Herbert von Karajan | Peter Schreier | Thomas Stewart

Karajan’s attempt to film his Salzburg Ring in a studio in Munich with a new soundtrack (not using his DG...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 5/2010

Scott Complete Piano Works, Vol 1

Cyril Scott | Leslie De'Ath

A revelatory orchestral recording (Chandos, 6/04) changed Cyril Scott’s fortunes in the CD catalogue and now this admirable recording inaugurates...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 7/2005

Organ Masters Series Vol 4

Gillian Weir

The 18 Leipzig Chorales are among Bach’s most mature creations with a rich variety of styles and emotions. Filling up...

Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 6/2005