Meyerbeer/Rossini Songs

Rossini and his old friend Meyerbeer would have been charmed and gratified by this marvellous song recital by Thomas Hampson...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 4/1992

Hans Knappertsbusch conducts Bruckner

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 8/2001

Mozart Keyboard Sonatas

It isn’t good to speak of rivalry or competition when individual artistry is at stake; but Marcia Hadjimarkos has rather...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 13/2007

Alla Venetiana

When in the middle of the quattrocento lutenists began to use the fingers of their right hands to pluck the...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 6/1999

Beethoven Symphony No 2; Brahms Symphony No 2

Beecham was no Brahmsian but he loved the Second Symphony and was for the best part of half a century...

Reviewed in issue 13/2002

Sibelius Orchestral Works

The new D Sharp label makes an auspicious debut with this first collection of popular Sibelius orchestral music, impressively recorded...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/1985

Auber Le Domino Noir

Auber’s operas were tremendously successful in the nineteenth century, but have hardly been performed in the twentieth at all. Le...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 1/1996

Steven Isserlis - Cello World

As one might expect from so characterful an artist as Steven Isserlis, this is a cello recital with a difference,...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 9/1998

Mahler Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen; Symphony No 1

Sad to say, but I got more from Benjamin Zander’s lecture about Mahler’s First Symphony and ‘Wayfarer’ Songs than from...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 4/2006

Max Levinson in recital

The most immediately striking thing about this disc is the wonderful piano sound. One can simply revel in the sheer...

Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 13/1998