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Foulds (A) World Requiem

The gestation period needed to absorb fully this extraordinary World Requiem has simply not been available. So when I admit...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 2/2008

Beethoven Symphonies Nos 2 & 5

Two good Second Symphonies, very unalike, though their respective couplings are more problematic. Douglas Boyd appears to have taken a...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2004

d'Indy Orchestral Works

An ardent Wagnerian, d'Indy was also an intense nationalist (his orchestration often has a Berliozian airiness, imagination and purity of...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 1/1995

Meyerbeer L'Africaine

Handsomely staged and sumptuously costumed‚ this famous production‚ first seen in 1972‚ makes good viewing; and on DVD the sound...

Reviewed in issue 13/2001

French Vocal Music

Each song or movement here starts so promisingly that it is sad to have to report an over all disappointment....

Reviewed in issue 1/1985

Lukaszewski Choral Music

This is a lovely disc of enchanting choral music. Possibly the Trinity College Choir does not always provide the...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 13/2008

Victoria Sacred Choral Works

The extended series of recordings of an individual composer’s works – if not always the opera omnia – is much...

Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 8/1997

Handel - Handel at Home

Handel wrote very little for the flute. Indeed, when he wrote the indication ‘flauto’ in his scores he meant recorder....

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 9/2006

Devil's Trill - Yuval Yaron

A CD that should be on every violin teacher’s syllabus, not so much because of stylistic ‘correctness’ (authenticists will in...

Reviewed in issue 5/1999

Rachmaninov Piano Works

Ever since his triumph in the 1998 Tchaikovsky Competition, Denis Matsuev’s name has inspired awe and amazement in musical circles....

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 3/2008

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