Dvorák Requiem

Alan Byers | Ambrosian Singers | Andrew Giles | Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford | Erzesébet Komlóssy | István Kertész | London Symphony Orchestra | Neil Ritchie | Nicholas Cleobury | Pilar Lorengar

The present version of Dvorak’s Requiem has undergone various transformations, from the original issue in a handsomely boxed set of...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1996

Bach (The) Well Tempered Klavier, Book 1

Daniel Barenboim

‘The Old Testament of Piano Music’ (von Bülow) was a decisive work in our adoption of a 12-tone chromatic system....

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 13/2004

Schoeck Works for Horn and Orchestra

Bruno Schneider | Martin Zürcher | Musikcollegium Winterthur | Silvia Zabarella | Werner Andreas Albert

Best known for his wonderful songs, which number over 300, and his operas, Schoeck composed comparatively little pure instrumental music...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 2/1997

Humperdinck Königskinder

The standing of Königskinder in the Humperdinck canon has been well rehearsed. Compared with Hänsel und Gretel, it lacks...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 1/2012

Wagner (Der) Fliegende Holländer

Astrid Varnay | Bayreuth Festival Chorus | Bayreuth Festival Orchestra | Hans Knappertsbusch | Hermann Uhde | Ludwig Weber | Wolfgang Windgassen

The present recording, here in its first official issue, is the opening night of the 1955 Bayreuth run that yielded...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 2/2010

Mahler Das Lied Von Der Erde

Christian Gerhaher | Kent Nagano | Klaus Florian Vogt | Montreal Symphony Orchestra

Speaking in purely vocal terms, my taste in Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde is plainly heterosexual. I realise this...

Reviewed by K Smith in issue: 13/2009

MAHLER Symphony No 1

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra | Marin Alsop

This is the second recording in as many months to tell us (in the booklet-notes) that Mahler’s initial foray into...

Reviewed by K Smith in issue: 10/2012

WOLF Italienisches Liederbuch

Christian Gerhaher | Gerold Huber | Mojca Erdmann

Never one to understate a case, Wolf dubbed his Italian Songbook “the most original and artistically perfect of all my...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2011

MAHLER Symphony No 3 (Mehta)

Israel Philharmonic Orchestra | Mihoko Fujimura | Zubin Mehta

Arriving simultaneously with the news that Lahav Shani is to succeed Zubin Mehta at the helm of the Israel Philharmonic,...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2018

Revisions: Earl Wild Piano Transcriptions (Vittorio Forte)

Earl Wild’s piano transcriptions, direct descendants of those by Liszt, Busoni, Rachmaninov and Godowsky, are now in the repertoire of...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: