Schubert Part Songs for Male Voices, Vol. 2

Within two seconds of pressing the ‘play’ button it’s obvious that here is a disc of outstanding singing. Five distinct...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 13/1997

Mozart Don Giovanni for Wind Ensemble

There are, I suppose, reasons for listening to Don Giovanni without the voices; though, short of cocktail party background music,...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 4/1994

(The) Roaring Twenties

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 2/2007

Tubin Complete Symphonies Vol 1

In the 12 years since the last of Jarvi's recordings of Tubin's symphonies for BIS appeared, no one has touched...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 6/2000

The Romantic Piano Concerto, Volume 13

Following hard on the heels of his warmly praised discs of the complete solo piano music (7/96 and page 123...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/1996

Dvorák Symphony No 8; (The) Noon Witch

A more stimulating disc it would be hard to imagine. Right from the symphony's subtly textured outset (with trombones and...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/1999

20th-century Dutch Piano Works

Escher’s Arcana is the highlight here, a virtuoso suite reflecting the Ravel of Gaspard through the chastening lens of neo-classicism....

Reviewed in issue 10/1998

Donizetti Poliuto

The recent book on Franco Corelli by Marina Boagno (published in English by Baskerville, USA; 1996) lists no less than...

Reviewed in issue 11/1997

Mozart; Vivaldi Violin Concertos

A neat CD package which offers up what looks like perfect repertoire with which to remember the polished technical command...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2007

R. Strauss Lieder

Brave as it undoubtedly was of Shirai to begin her Strauss selection with the operatic effusions of Zueignung—and in the...

Reviewed in issue 2/1995