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Haydn Symphonies

The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment do not have a regular conductor of their own, and have not developed...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 2/1990

Victoria: Sacred Choral Works

This has already become one of my most cherished records. Though it may never quite attain the legendary status of...

Reviewed in issue 10/1984

Chopin Rondos & Variations

It's for the second of these generously filled, separately purchasable discs, devoted to Chopin's infrequently heard, youthful (in fact mostly...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 5/1993

E.T.A.Hoffmann: Orchestral Works

It is well known that Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann changed his third name to Amadeus in homage to his beloved...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 8/1988

Nyiregyhazi at the Opera

Truth can indeed be stranger than fiction. Ervin Nyiregyhazi, a prodigy of prodigies, was born in 1903 and, aided and...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/1993

Stradella Cantatas

The music of Alessandro Stradella makes infrequent appearances on disc, and performances have tended to be uneven. All the more...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 4/1999

Debussy Preludes Book II

Russell Sherman’s programme (the start of a complete Debussy cycle?) reminds you in a salutary if unintentional way that although...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2008

Italian and Neapolitan Songs

JBS was critical of some aspects of this record when he discussed the LP version in October 1979. He recalled...

Reviewed in issue 8/1983

Tomkins Book of Songs

Thomas Tomkins’s collection of Songs of 3, 4, 5 & 6 Parts, published in 1622, is one of the last...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 2/2003

Puccini Turandot

DVD is the best opera medium so far; but only purpose-made recordings can fully exploit it. Among the first is...

Reviewed by mscott rohan in issue: 1/2000

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