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BEETHOVEN Diabelli Variations, Op 120
Behold Paul Lewis, a sensitive, cultured and relatively young pianist, determined to thoroughly plot out Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations with methodical,...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 8/2011
ALBÉNIZ Iberia 1 GRANADOS Goyescas MOMPOU Variations
Sebastian Stanley is a young English pianist of Spanish origin who suitably entitles his programme El amor y la muerte,...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 08/2011
de Niese: Beauty of the Baroque
Hailed for the unlikely feat of putting the “sex into Sussex” after her charismatic Cleopatra for the Glyndebourne Festival, Danielle...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2011
WOLF Italienisches Liederbuch
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
MOZART Requiem
Preferences for Mozart’s ever-beguiling Requiem are now as often based on the edition used as on the performers or performance...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2011
Calleja: The Maltese Tenor
Here Joseph Calleja has decisively entered the Three Tenors zone – and I wish he’d waited a few more years....
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 08/2011
HANDEL Ariodante
In 1734 Handel moved his opera company from the King’s Theatre in the Haymarket to John Rich’s new Theatre Royal...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 08/2011
HANDEL Samson. Rodelinda
Two recordings of Handel operas from early 1959, both starring the young Joan Sutherland and both captured just weeks before...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 08/2011
SCHMITT Psaume 47. La Tragédie de Salomé. Le Palais hanté
Another month, another recording of Florent Schmitt’s La tragédie de Salomé. Anybody who already has the recent ATMA release by...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 09/2011
RÓZSA Orchestral Works Volume 2
Miklós Rózsa, born in Budapest, was one of the most gifted of all the composers who moved from his homeland...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 09/2011
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Book review - Monteverdi’s Voices: A Poetics of the Madrigal (by Tim Carter)
'The forensic study of Monteverdi’s madrigals bears ripe fruit from four decades of philological...
Review - Philadelphia Orchestra and Eugene Ormandy: The Columbia Stereo Recordings 1964-1983
Jed Distler delves into a massive collection focusing on the conductor’s later discography
Review - 'Vienna: From Mozart to Schoenberg' (London Sinfonietta / David Atherton)
Richard Whitehouse on a collection taking in the London Sinfonietta’s 1970s recordings
Book review - Edward Elgar and Adrian Boult (by Nigel Simeone)
'A veritable treasure trove for enthusiasts'
Box-set round-up: April 2025 (Stokowski, Dorati, Fiorentino)
Rob Cowan on three collections of vintage recorded performances
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