Dvorák Serenade Op. 44 : Myslivecek Octets Nos 1-3

(Sabine) Meyer Wind Ensemble | Christoph Schmidt | Manuel Fischer-Dieskau

With plenty of versions of Dvorak’s evergreen Serenade to choose from, Sabine Meyer enters a competitive arena. The players give...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 9/1996

DURUFLÉ Complete Choral Works

Cecilia Duarte | Eduardo Tercero | Houston Chamber Choir | Ken Cowan | Norman Fischer | Robert Simpson

There are just four extant choral works by Maurice Duruflé, which, by good fortune, are easily accommodated on a single...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 05/2019

Haydn (Die) Schöpfung

Herbert von Karajan (DG) has shown that, within a massed-forces, full-colour production of The Creation, considerations of pace, weight and...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 9/1987

Opera and Operetta Recordings

(The) King's Consort | Abbey Road Ensemble | Alan Ewing | Alicia Nafé | Alison Browner | Andreas Post | Anna Netrebko | Anna Reynolds | Anne Sofie von Otter | Annelies Burmeister

There are very few singers that any of us, I imagine, would choose to listen to for 10 hours. Even...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 6/2004

Mendelssohn Songs

Eugene Asti | Nathan Berg | Sophie Daneman

A musical soiree in the 1830s with songs and duets by Mendelssohn would have been a homely affair. There is...

Reviewed in issue 5/1998

Hewitt plays Handel and Haydn

Angela Hewitt

Isn’t it odd to lump Handel with Haydn? Not for Haydn who, like Beethoven, thought Handel the greatest composer of...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 13/2009

Bartok/Berg Bluebeard/Wozzeck

Antál Dorati | Franz Mazura | Helga Pilarczyk | Jeannine Altmeyer | London Symphony Orchestra | Mihály Székely | Olga Szönyi

Dorati's high opinion of Bluebeard's Castle informs his interpretation: a taut, keenly accented affair, where atmosphere takes second place to...

Reviewed in issue 7/1993

Schumann Introduction and Allegro Appassionato; Six Etudes

The Introduction and Allegro appassionato (1849), otherwise known as the Concertstück in G major for piano and orchestra, and the...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 6/2010

Strauss, R Oboe Concerto; Serenade

Daniel Harding | Ensemble Paris-Bastille | François Leleux | Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

In the summer of 1945 a group of American soldiers called on Richard Strauss at his villa in Garmisch. Among...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/2011

Martin Violin Concerto; Etudes

Berkeley Symphony Orchestra | New Century Chamber Orchestra | Sara Ganz | Stuart Canin

Stuart Canin hails from New York and is a Galamian pupil. He won the Paganini Violin Competition in Genoa 35...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 1/1997