José Cura - Aurora

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/2003

Mahler 4 (Orchestral) Movements

Readers may recall the fuss when DG proposed releasing bleeding chunks from Claudio Abbado’s Mahler cycle. This however is an...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 13/2009

Ned Rorem Chamber Works

The message of this release is that Ned Rorem—70 next year, if you can believe it—was on excellent form in...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 10/1992

Szymanowski Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 2; Concert Overture, Op 12

Why do we hear so little of Kaja Danczowska? Her spellbinding accounts of these concertos are the equal of any...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 8/1998

Bidu Sayão sings Debussy, Leoncavallo, Mozart, Puccini & Verdi

Charm is an elusive thing; I doubt if it can be taught. Singers guilty of laying it on too thick...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 4/1998

Lagoya plays Carmen

‘Play pretty for the people, those who love convenience food and easy-listening snippets’ is the unwritten subtitle of this collection...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 10/1996

Dvorák Complete Symphonies

Born in Greece but raised in Bulgaria, Ivan Anguélov (a pupil of Markevitch, Sawallisch and Carlos Kleiber) has been forging...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 1/2006

Muskett Miss Austen Regrets OST

Miss Austen Regrets was shown on BBC1 in March. Unlike the feature film Becoming Jane which told of a romance...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 8/2008

Debussy Préludes, Book 1 & L'Isle joyeuse

Pollini's DG disc of Debussy's 12 Etudes (3/94) received a mixed reception, praised by some for its unfaltering seriousness and...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 1/2000

Wagner Der Fliegende Holländer

One of my greatest regrets is not to have visited Bayreuth in my youth to catch this Hollander of 1955....

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1997