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José Carreras sings Opera Arias

I have no reason to gainsay my original view of the duet offering, when it first appeared in 1980. It...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1991

Handel German Airs

Few Handel releases have given me as much enjoyment as the recent EMI recording of his Nine German Arias with...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 9/1987

Strauss, R; Wagner Arias & Scenes

This recital was recorded in September 2003, a few months after Deborah Voigt sang her first Isolde, at the Vienna...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 5/2004

Berio Complete Piano Works

One of Berio’s last works, the 28-minute Piano Sonata is also one of his most powerful. It might seem pretentious...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 7/2007

Villa-Lobos Symphony No 4;Cello Concerto No 2

If any single work from Villa-Lobos’s vast output could be said to typify him, that might well be the 1917...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 5/1997

Prokofiev Suites

With two CDs available, this should surely have been the complete Cinderella, not just the three suites un-reordered with two...

Reviewed in issue 4/1995

Verdi La Traviata

The special quality of this Traviata is clearest in its last act. The reason may be that this scene concentrates...

Reviewed in issue 2/1993

Chopin Piano Works

Am I missing something? Long live variety in Chopin playing‚ but why‚ alone among great composers‚ is he still considered...

Reviewed in issue 11/2001

Barber Historic Performances 1938-53

Leontyne Price was on the threshold of her international career when she and Samuel Barber gave this, their first recital...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 5/2005

Janácek Chamber music

Grayson Hirst's fine performance of the Diary on Arabesque/Harmonia Mundi is let down rather by the impassivity of the mezzo-soprano...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 4/1990

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