JONCIÈRES Dimitri

Andrew Foster-Williams | Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra | Flanders Opera Children's Chorus | Gabrielle Philiponet | Hervé Niquet | Jean Teitgen | Jennifer Borghi | Joris Derder | Julien Véronèse | Lore Binon

The Palazzetto Bru Zane in Venice certainly does not skimp on its championship of sidelined French Romantic music. Here, in...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 09/2014

SCHOENBERG Moses and Aron

Andreas Conrad | Andreas Wolf | Elvira Bill | EuropaChorAcademie | Franz Grundheber | Friedemann Röhlig | Jean-Noel Briend | Johanna Winkel | Katharina Persicke | Nora Petrochenko

This CD recording of Schoenberg’s most substantial dramatic work appears in the same year that Welsh National Opera gave the...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: AW2014

Schubert: Winterreise

This completes Luxon's and Willison's traversal of the Schubert cycles, each of which has been an impressive achievement, because neither...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1991

Bach Partitas No.1, 5 and 6

Murray Perahia

The high standards of stylish perception and pianistic finesse Murray Perahia brought to Bach’s Partitas Nos 2, 3 and 4...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 2/2010

Busoni Doktor Faust

Andreas Winkler | Gabriel Bermúdez | Giuseppe Scorsin | Gregory Kunde | Günther Groissböck | Martin Zysset | Matthew Leigh | Miroslav Christoff | Philippe Jordan | Randall Ball

Named one of the three “most special” German operas of the 20th century by Fischer-Dieskau, alongside Mathis der Maler and...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 3/2008

Classical Legends - In Their Own Words

This is like one of those books which you wouldn’t dream of reading on your own account, but which, having...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 10/2010

BARTÓK Piano Concertos

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra | Gianandrea Noseda | Jean-Efflam Bavouzet

If you’re after a disc of Bartók’s piano concertos that maximises on the music’s drive, elegance and sparring potential, then...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: A/2010

R. Strauss Lieder

Roger Vignoles | Udo Reinemann

Here is yet another accomplished interpreter of Lieder. His singing throughout this long recital shows consistent sensitivity in response to...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1990

Schumann Romances & Ballads

Bryn Terfel | Lorna Anderson | Malcolm Martineau | Timothy Robinson

Terfel launches his very generous selection of Schumann's most noted Lieder with tremendous panache, just the quality called for by...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/2000

Brahms Lieder, Vo.l 3

Charles Spencer | Christian Elsner | Deborah Polaski

Deborah Polaski is renowned as a strong, sincere interpreter of Brünnhilde and Elektra among others. On this evidence – for...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/2004