Mozart Der Schauspieldirektor and various arias

Benno Kusche | Carlo Galeffi | Catarina Ligendza | Christa Ludwig | Corrado Zambelli | David Wilson-Johnson | Dennis Noble | Doris Doe | Edita Gruberová | Elisabeth Grümmer

A curiously constituted disc this, good enough value in quantity as in quality yet not quite adding up. Presumably the...

Reviewed in issue 8/1991

Hugo Wolf Early Songs

Dido Keuning | Nico van der Meel

Wolf’s early songs have been unduly neglected though Fischer-Dieskau – who else? – uncovered some of them in a late...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1997

Britten War Requiem

Anthony Dean Griffey | Christine Brewer | Gerald Finley | Kurt Masur | London Philharmonic Choir | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Tiffin School Boys' Choir

After more than 40 years, this unique work has lost none of its power to inspire its performers and listeners...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/2006

LISZT A Faust Symphony

Christian Thielemann | Dresden State Opera Chorus | Endrik Wottrich | Staatskapelle Dresden

It was a good move to mark the bicentenary of Liszt’s birth with a performance of what is surely his...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2012

SALIERI The Chimney Sweep

Alexandra Oomens | Amelia Farrugia | Christopher Saunders | David Hidden | David Woloszko | Erin Helyard | Janet Todd | Orchestra of the Antipodes | Stuart Haycock | Sydney Children's Choir

Premiered at Joseph II’s new German National Theatre in April 1781, Salieri’s The Chimney Sweep (Der Rauchfangkehrer) is an agreeably...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2015

Brahms Piano Concerto No 1

Artur Schnabel | George Szell | London Philharmonic Orchestra

Here‚ in the first of two records devoted to the Brahms Piano Concertos‚ is Schnabel in all his idiosyncrasy and...

Reviewed in issue 12/2001

Schubert Die schöne Müllerin

Sylvan has said in his interview on page 11 that he has a long association with this cycle; that is...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1993

SCHUMANN Liederkreis, Op 39. Op 24

Gerald Finley | Julius Drake

Now at the peak of his recording career, Gerald Finley is unsystematically jumping from Ives to Ravel to Schumann, no...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 01/2013

Beethoven Piano Concertos

Cleveland Orchestra | Cleveland Orchestra Chorus | Vladimir Ashkenazy

When Ashkenazy's first set of the Beethoven piano concertos appeared, with Solti and the Chicago SO in September 1973, Trevor...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/1989

Kienzl Don Quixote Op 50

Andreas Kohn | Anett Taube | Berlin Radio Chorus | Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra | Celina Lindsley | Gabriele Schreckenbach | Gustav Kuhn | Hans Aschenbach | James Wagner | Kirsten Blanck

The unintentional irony becomes slowly and painfully irresistible. The opera is about a man deluded by noble ideals concerning his...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 5/2003