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Jongen Organ Works, Vol.1

John Scott Whiteley has long devoted himself to the cause of Jongen's music. He has recorded individual pieces before (including...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 7/1993

Vivaldi Bajazet

The time when recordings of Vivaldi operas were almost unheard of is absurdly recent, yet in the past couple of...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 5/2005

Stravinsky Orchestral Works

It may sound as though I am selling Hiroyuki Iwaki's lucid and crisply detailed Petrushka short by saying so, but...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 9/1990

Eva Marton Recital

From the very first notes, Leonora's ''Son giunta?'', it is evident that this is another of those big unsteady voices...

Reviewed in issue 3/1987

Purcell Harpsichord Works

Considering Purcell’s long involvement with keyboard instruments – he was not only organist of Westminster Abbey and of the Royal...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 3/1996

Donizetti Imelda de' Lambertazzi

Imelda was produced in 1830, just before Anna Bolena, which was Donizetti’s first resounding popular success. It tells a story...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 5/2008

Ikon Russian Choral Music

The most interesting discovery to be made on this anthology is Sviridov’s choral music, both sacred (though disguised as incidental...

Reviewed in issue 8/1997

Bellini (La) Sonnambula

It has taken quite a long time for Decca to pair its star tenor and mezzo but in this first...

Reviewed by po'connor in issue: 2/2009

Berwald Orchestral Works

No fewer than seven CDs of the Berwald symphonies this month, more than one would have expected in as many...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 6/1996

Mozart Operatic Arias

‘Singing Mozart is second nature to her,’ enthuses Rattle of Magdalena Kozená. ‘Each woman on each track is a completely...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 9/2006

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