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Monteverdi Orfeo

Monteverdi’s first music drama was performed for his Gonzaga patrons in Mantua on February 24, 1607. In his illuminating booklet-note,...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 5/2004

Haydn Complete Symphonies (The)

It was little short of tragic that the very last box of symphonies in Adám Fischer’s Haydn series for Nimbus‚...

Reviewed in issue 8/2002

Words of the Angel

Trio Mediaeval was founded four years ago in Oslo‚ and this is their first recording. Their voices are clear‚ firm...

Reviewed in issue 1/2002

Opera Arias

For certain of their qualities Samuel Ramey's already stand among the best bass recordings of the century. The Handel and...

Reviewed in issue 11/1987

Mahler Symphony No 9

For reasons never quite clear to me, some Mahlerians tear their hair when confronted with Levine's performances. He is often...

Reviewed in issue 9/1986

Psalms of David from the Hebrew Bible

It is extremely difficult to comment constructively on the theoretical basis of this disc, since the insert-notes are not really...

Reviewed in issue 2/1993

Palestrina & Primavera Choral Works

It was a good idea, characteristic of the imaginative planning that Peter Phillips puts into his records, to combine one...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 1/1987

Turnage Greek

Mark-Anthony Turnage's Greek (to a libretto by Steven Berkoff from his own Oedipus-in-the-East-End play) won two awards and a standing...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 7/1994

Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition. Night on the Bare Mountain

This was the Philips engineers' first-published digital recording back in 1981, and the CD with its firmness and body makes...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1985

Dvorák Rusalka

As music director of Opera Australia, it is not surprising that Richard Hickox should want to make recordings with that...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/2008

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