Mozart Sacred Choral Works

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Frank Lopardo | György Korondy | Hungarian Radio and Television Chorus | Hungarian State Orchestra | James Morris | János Ferencsik | József Gregor | Klára Takács | Magda Kalmár

It seems that there is a new recording of this work about every second month. Where all the buyers come...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1988

Tchaikovsky Swan Lake & Sleeping Beauty Suites

Philadelphia Orchestra | Riccardo Muti

Essentially this is one of EMI's very best CDs. The Philadelphia Orchestra not only play splendidly but have the advantage...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 7/1985

Mozart (Le) Nozze di Figaro

Adelina Scarabelli | Alessandro Corbelli | Anthony Roden | Benjamin Luxon | Bernard Haitink | Carol Vaness | Claudio Desderi | Daniella Dessì | Delores Ziegler | Frederica von Stade

I looked out my Glyndebourne programme of 1973. Out fell contemporaneous reviews all heaping plaudits on the Figaro, Peter Hall’s...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/2004

Brahms: Symphony No.1

Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Günter Wand | Philadelphia Orchestra | Riccardo Muti

Muti's Philips recordings of the Fourth and Second Symphonies struck me as having many good qualities (6/89 and 3/90 respectively),...

Reviewed in issue 4/1991

Brahms Symphony No.2; Academic Festival Ov

Philadelphia Orchestra | Riccardo Muti

Abbado's fine new DG recording of the Second Symphony is quickly followed by another very satisfying version from Muti and...

Reviewed in issue 3/1990

BOLCOM The Complete Rags (Marc-André Hamelin)

Marc-André Hamelin

Hamelin and Bolcom are old friends on disc and in life. Back in 1987, the young Canadian recorded Twelve New...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2022

Bruckner Symphonies 4 & 7

Basel Symphony Orchestra | Gerd Schaller | Mario Venzago | Philharmonie Festiva

Mario Venzago is a Hans Swarowsky pupil who is best known in the UK as principal conductor of the Northern...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2011

GRIEG Lyric Pieces MENDELSSOHN Lieder Ohne Worte (Kozhukhin)

Denis Kozhukhin

Once in a while a piano recording comes along that really plucks at the heart-strings. Denis Kozhukhin’s compilation of miniatures...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 09/2019

LORIOD The Complete Véga Recordings 1956-1963

For all the eccentric ordering of this fascinating set, which proceeds according to neither chronology of works or recordings, the...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 04/2019

20th Century Piano Works

Maurizio Pollini

Perfectionism in musical performance is a debatable virtue; and the debate could do worse than focus on the case of...

Reviewed in issue 6/1995