Mozart: Così fan tutte

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Berlin RIAS Chamber Choir | Cecilia Bartoli | Daniel Barenboim | Ferruccio Furlanetto | Joan Rodgers | John Tomlinson | Kurt Streit | Lella Cuberli

Give me a new version of this work to review and inevitably I become involved in seemingly endless comparisons with...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1990

Bryars Farewell to Philosophy

Charlie Haden | English Chamber Orchestra | James Judd | Julian Lloyd Webber | Nexus

Were our Editor to commission a “What next?” sequence after Sibelius’s Swan of Tuonela, Gavin Bryars’s 1995 Cello Concerto (or...

Reviewed in issue 11/1996

Hindemith Choral Works a capella

Berlin Radio Chorus | Stefan Parkman

A fine recital that may surprise those unfamiliar with Hindemith’s choral output. Parkman’s account of the six Rilke Chansons (1939)...

Reviewed in issue 3/1999

Encores for Flute and Piano

Clifford Benson | William Bennett

This tape is well titled, for it is exactly what it promises to be. Don't expect substantial pieces or only...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 10/1989

Cage One; One2; One5

Chris Burn | Lee Patterson | Mark Wastell | Sabine Liebner | Simon Allen

When Arnold Schoenberg issued his now famous decree – that John Cage was an inventor of genius, not a composer,...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 6/2011

Verdi Aida

Derek Bailey | Ernesto Gavazzi | Francesca Garbi | Ghena Dimitrova | Juan Pons | Lorin Maazel | Luca Ronconi | Luciano Pavarotti | Maria Chiara | Milan La Scala Chorus

Aida returned to La Scala in 1985 after a long break with this imaginative production by Luca Ronconi. Decadence is...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/2001

Spirit of Vienna

(Die) Flotten Geister | Christian Pollack

Even with Marco Polo’s complete editions of orchestral works of various members of the Strauss family, the Viennese light music...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 7/2007

Giaches de Wert Madrigali

Cantus Cölln | Konrad Junghänel

One of the curiosities of the Italian madrigal repertory is that for the first half of its history the major...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 12/1997

Furtwängler Recordings 1942-44

British intelligence experts who monitored German radio broadcasts during the Second World War became puzzled by programmes which could not...

Reviewed in issue 9/1989

Lieder on Poems of Heinrich Heine

Kevin McMillan | Michael McMahon

The Canadian baritone Kevin McMillan has made quite a reputation for himself as an interpreter of Lieder. He proves his...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1993