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Decoust: Chamber Works

The sleeve-note informs us that Michel Decoust was born in 1936 and is a pupil of Messiaen, Milhaud and Louis...

Reviewed in issue 11/1985

Verdi Requiem

The packaging of Abbado's Verdi Requiem passes the Trades Description Act with flying colours. A soft-focus crucifix bathed in misty...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 10/1986

Gigli sings Popular Italian Songs

It is a pity not to be able to review the records with quite the pleasure that attended the writing...

Reviewed in issue 8/1990

Raff Symphonies Nos 9 and 11

With these discs Hans Stadlmair and the Bambergers complete their cycle of Raff’s 11 symphonies, half-forgotten works that had a...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 7/2006

Bach Cantatas, Vol 19

Ton Koopman’s Bach cantata series was set to complete well before Masaaki Suzuki’s, each Erato release containing three discs, leaving...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 2/2003

Lebrun Oboe Concertos 1, 2 & 4

Ludwig August Lebrun was the leading oboe player of the 1770s and ’80s, having joined the famous Mannheim court orchestra...

Reviewed in issue 7/2001

Widor Organ Symphonies

An avalanche of Widor! As one who once sat with him on the organ bench at Saint-Sulpice (he was then...

Reviewed by faprahamian in issue: 6/1989

Byrd My Ladye Nevells Booke

Here's a re-release I've been looking forward to. Back in the 1970s sets like this—offering complete the contents of an...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/1993

Rossini Overtures

A hundred years ago it was difficult for a discerning music-lover like G. B. Shaw to hear Rossini overtures played...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 2/1989

Vaughan Williams Vocal Works

Here are three performances which can genuinely be described as historic. Two are transfers from what were originally commercial 78s,...

Reviewed in issue 12/1989

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