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Bellini Il Pirata

EMI have for some years now been supplementing their Callas library, the essential volumes of complete operas in inspired...

Reviewed in issue 1/1994

Ruera Orchestral Works.

As performers, titles and composer’s name should indicate, Josep Maria Ruera (1900-88) was Catalan. Born in Barcelona, he spent most...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 5/2004

Mendelssohn Overtures

Claudio Abbado has shown himself to be a sympathetic conductor of Mendelssohn's music since his earliest days in the recording...

Reviewed in issue 5/1988

Leontyne Price sings Strauss arias

Generous, rich and full-hearted Strauss singing here from one of the great sopranos of our time, albeit not without some...

Reviewed in issue 8/1990

Berio Orchestral music

Here at last is a complete recording of Berio's Sinfonia. Until now, this absorbing and bewilderingly complex work has been...

Reviewed in issue 2/1986

Handel Vocal Works

If, after the period-instrument strings have made their sharply pointed entry, ''Dick'' does not promptly ''sit'' it is not for...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 2/1989

Haydn Sacred Music

The obvious importance of this new release is the first appearance on disc of two recent Haydn discoveries, the brief...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 9/1994

Walton Ballet Music

Of all the film scores that deserve sumptuous sound, Walton's for the Olivier film of Henry V stands perhaps the...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/1991

Charpentier Louise - excerpts

Louise, although composed by Gustave Charpentier during the late 1890s, was one of the first twentieth-century operas, its premiere at...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 6/1999

Forqueray Pieces de Clavecin

Forqueray’s 32 feisty harpsichord character pieces, published in Paris in 1747, occupy a special place in the repertoire, not least...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 7/2008

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