Beniamino Gigli - The Complete HMV Recordings (1933-35)

(Anonymous) Orchestra | Aage Haugland | Adelaide Saraceni | Afro Poli | Alexander Peregudov | Alexander Welitsch | Alexei Ivanov | Alfred Kleinheinz | Alfredo Mariotti | Alison Browner

In 1932 Gigli left the Metropolitan and, with it, the Victor record company: three volumes in the Romophone series covers...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/1999

Prokofiev - 50th Anniversary Edition

(Royal) Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam | Adrianne Pieczonka | Afro Poli | Aileen Davies | Alain Lombard | Alan Ewing | Aleksandra Zamojska | Aleksei Sultanov | Alexander Peregudov | Alexandr Morozov

Record companies and book publishers are vying to mark the 50th anniversary of Prokofiev’s death in the appropriate style. But...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 6/2003

Schumann Lieder

Andreas Schmidt | Rudolf Jansen

Schumann is certainly flavour of the day where Lieder are concerned. This version of Op. 39 is, on my reckoning,...

Reviewed in issue 3/1995

Schumann Lieder

Geoffrey Parsons | Thomas Hampson

Hampson has a growing reputation as a Lieder artist, further justified by this intelligently planned and executed recital. Several of...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1991

Mahler Das Lied von der Erde

Bo Skovhus | Esa-Pekka Salonen | Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra | Plácido Domingo

You have to acknowledge Domingo's sheer persistence and courage in tackling such a searching work as he nears his 60th...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/2000

LISZT 6 Hungarian Rhapsodies

Martin Haselböck | Vienna Academy Orchestra

As with Martin Haselböck’s fascinating period-instrument series of Liszt tone-poems for NCA, his set of the six Hungarian Rhapsodies for...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2013

Wolf Mörike Lieder

Geoffrey Parsons | Olaf Bär

At rising 30, Bar has already won himself an altogether enviable reputation as an interpreter of Lieder: his Wigmore Hall...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1987

Frank Martin interprets Frank Martin

Elly Ameling | Frank Martin | Heinz Rehfuss | Henri Honegger | Pieter Odé | Robert Willoughby

This well-filled CD assembles the contents of two separately issued LPs. One (reviewed in February 1986) included Martin playing the...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 3/1990

STRAUSS Complete Songs Vol 7

Ben Johnson | Ed Lockwood | Günter Haumer | Roger Vignoles | Ruby Hughes

Unlike the earlier mix-and-match releases in Hyperion’s Strauss song survey, this disc consists entirely of less popular works, opening with...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2015

Dvorak - Violin Concerto / Janowski

Having launched the phenomenal recording career of Julia Fischer, Pentatone now seeks to progress the career of another outstanding young...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 1/2010