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Ives Romanzo di Central Park
This is the second volume of Ives songs from this accomplished team whose CD of Barber was Disc of the...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 4/2008
SCHUBERT Die schöne Müllerin (Andrè Schuen)
The freshness of youth is an essential asset in Schubert’s mill cycle. Andrè Schuen’s handsome, ductile baritone has it in...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2021
HORNEMAN Aladdin
The Overture to Christian Frederik Emil Horneman’s Aladdin was once among the most-performed pieces of Danish music. It is a...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 07/2022
Bartók First Rhapsody; Kodaly Dances from Galánta; Háry János Suite
Gulbenkian Orchestra | Lawrence Foster
An appealing Eastern-flavoured musical salad this, and a fairly approachable sampling of what music from the region sounded like up...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 6/2011
Offenbach (Les) Contes d'Hoffmann, 'The Tales of Hoffmann'
These three sets were all ‘remakes’ for thethen-new stereo market. The recordings they replaced disappeared from the catalogues for decades,...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 6/2003
Liszt (A) Faust Symphony
BBC Northern Singers | BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra | Jascha Horenstein | John Mitchinson
There are at least two ways of assessing this performance. First as a late, gnarled statement, a little unkempt but...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 13/2003
Bartók Piano Concertos & Sonata
A single CD is the natural format for Bartok's three piano concertos. The excellent Kocsis recordings on Philips are spread...
Reviewed in issue 5/1991
Schumann Genoveva
Because of certain dramatic shortcomings, including a contrived, last-minute happy ending and an infusion of black magic once dismissed by...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 1/1994
R. Strauss Arabella
Arabella has gradually become the most popular of Strauss's operas after Der Rosenkavalier and it is not really surprising. The...
Reviewed in issue 2/1988
Martha Argerich & Friends - Live from the Lugano Festival 2007
Martha Argerich can put you on alert with just one phrase. A sequence of phrases, as in the opening of...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 6/2008
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