(The) Ocean that has no West and no East

Peter Serkin

Each item in this imaginative recital strikes sparks off its neighbours. At the recital’s still heart, the second of the...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2000

Tye/Mundy Vocal Works

Jeremy Summerly | Oxford Camerata

Two alternatim pieces by Mundy, with smooth legato chant sections, offset, in this recording, by Tye's well-known, six-part Euge Bone...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 2/1995

Rossini Messa di Gloria

Academy of St Martin in the Fields | Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chorus | Ann Murray | Francisco Araiza | Neville Marriner | Raúl Giménez | Samuel Ramey | Sumi Jo

It is a mystery why Rossini's Messa di gloria is so little known. He wrote the work—a ninemovement setting of...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/1992

Tchaikovsky Songs, Vol 1

Ljuba Kazarnovskaya | Ljuba Orfenova

If all the items in this recital were as effectively sung as the Cradle song, or Do not leave me,...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 8/1999

Bach Motets

Richard Marlow | Trinity College Choir, Cambridge

This new recording of Bach's motets includes six of the seven works published in the Neue Bachausgake in 1965. The...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 12/1988

Purcell Phantasies, Ayres & Chaconys

David Miller | The Flautadors

Akin to the pursuits of the Loeki Stardust Quartet of Amsterdam, that most durable of international recorder ensembles, the Flautadors...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/2007

C.P.E. Bach Die Israeliten

C. P. E. Bach's oratorio Die Israeliten in der Wuste dates from 1768–9 when he succeeded his godfather, Telemann, as...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 9/1990

Mozart Flute Quartets

Gustav Clarkson | Hartmut Höll | Josephine Horder | Judith Hall | Mitsuko Shirai | Paul Barritt

Opinions will, I suspect, always be divided on the Lieder singing of Mitsuko Shirai. Studying with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and working...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 9/1988

Berlioz/Saint-Saëns Orchestral Works

Boston Symphony Orchestra | Charles Munch

This particular Berlioz concert has long enjoyed classic status, and many collectors will rejoice at its return to circulation. So,...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/1993

Janácek (The) Excursions of Mr Broucek

BBC Singers | BBC Symphony Orchestra | Charles Gibbs | Ivan Kusnjer | Jan Vacik | Jirí Belohlávek | Lenka Smidova | Maria Haan | Martina Bauerová | Peter Straka

Mr Broucek's excursions may have carried him to the moon and the 15th century, but it took him longer to...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 4/2008