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Luciana Serra - Prima Donna

The first impression is that this is recorded in a matchbox, or at least the tiniest of studios. We seem...

Reviewed in issue 5/1989

Gershem Ave Virgo Sanctissima

GÈry de Ghersem (1573-1630) was one of several composers whose outputs were largely destroyed in a series of catastrophes in...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2011

Liszt Piano Works

Pletnev’s return to Liszt is distinguished by a seasoned and nuanced re-reading of the great B minor Sonata. His earlier...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 1/1999

Bach Orchestral Suites

There is novelty value in this seriously conceived set of Bach’s four Orchestral Suites: Paul Dombrecht draws on the theory...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 9/2011

Stravinsky Les Noces

Not many visitors are going to escape through my front door without hearing this. Mind you, I could understand if...

Reviewed in issue 9/1994

Janácek Káta Kabanová

Over 20 years ago, Sir Charles Mackerras’s performance of Kat’a Kabanova led the way for his Janacek opera cycle, one...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 2/1998

Bruckner Symphony No 3

If, like the famous acquaintance of The Revd Sydney Smith, you consider heaven to be eating foie gras to the...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 8/1984

Three Edison Tenors

As the producer, Lawrence F. Holdridge, points out in his excellent notes, this is a three-tenors record with a difference....

Reviewed in issue 8/1998

Gluck Orfeo ed Euridice

Gluck’s Orfeo has appeared in many guises. But had you been at the court theatre in Vienna at the première...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 11/2002

Bruckner Symphony No. 8

This recording of Bruckner's Eighth Symphony was made in Berlin in June 1989 a few weeks after Karajan's resignation as...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/1990

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