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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

Monteverdi (L') Incoronazione di Poppea

As well as being the most compelling of all early operas, L’incoronazione di Poppea is also the most problematic. One...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 13/2005

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