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American Orchestral Works

Another imaginative release in this British series devoted to American music of which the major landmark is the first modern...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 4/1996

Verdi Don Carlo

The new Sony set comes tantalizingly close to being an unqualified recommendation. Levine realizes the nobility and inner intensity of...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1993

Haydn String Quartets, Op 20/1,3 & 4

If any quartet was going to match the Gramophone Award-winning Mosaiques in these works, it was always likely...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 6/1998

Bach Chamber Works

The Art of Fugue occupied Bach's mind intermittently, at least, during the last decade of his life. He left it...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 6/1985

Chaminade Piano Works

The swings of fortune are going the way of Cecile Chaminade at the moment. For so long seemingly remembered as...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 9/1992

Verdi Aida

If you want Aida as music-theatre, this is undoubtedly the set to have. On none of the rival sets on...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1987

Ingoldsby Chamber Works

Canadian-born composer Tom Ingoldsby will be 50 next year. I’d not encountered him before, but on this evidence he deserves...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 6/2006

Maria Reining

Maria Reining was the jugendliche-dramatische soprano who took over the majority of Lotte Lehmann's roles at the Vienna State Opera...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1992

Brahms Lieder

Those who are able to follow Anne Sofie von Otter's live recitals and stage performances will have noticed how much...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 4/1991

Last Night at the Proms

Just as the 1972 Last Night (Philips, nla) was remarkable for the unforgettable appearance of Jessye Norman in one of...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/2004

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