Beethoven Symphonies Nos 4 & 7

In a useful accompanying documentary, Claudio Abbado admits that his Beethoven style has evolved over time. He now places much...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 13/2003

Stravinsky Le Rossignol

Stravinsky’s short opera Le rossignol is still sufficiently little known that if you chose to play its opening to a...

Reviewed in issue 13/1998

Henze (Die) Bassariden

The première of The Bassarids, at the Salzburg Festival in August 1966 some six weeks after the composer’s 40th birthday,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 1/2004

Mendelssohn, F (Das) Jahr

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 7/2007

Mozart Piano Sonatas, K284 & K533/494

On the sixth disc in his Mozart series Arrau couples two works with double Kochel numbers explainable in the D...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 12/1988

Baroque orchestral works

An invigorating recital, full of energy and producing an arresting vitality. It is impossible to resist the vigour of the...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 5/1985

Berg; Schubert; Wolf Lieder

This debut recital by the young Dutch mezzo Christianne Stotijn, who has won many prizes on the Continent, is a...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/2006

Bruno Walter conducts Brahms

These were famous performances in their day, and it is interesting to hear them in a new format, but I...

Reviewed in issue 11/1992

Cilea Adriana Lecouvreur

Although a DVD of the same production was issued on Dynamic last year, this CD version is new to the...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 7/2011

Schumann Lieder

Christian Gerhaher has made a deep impression on me, live and on disc, in Schubert. With this Schumann recital he...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/2004