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Rameau Hippolyte et Aricie

If I were pressed to nominate the greatest single acts in baroque opera, high on the list would be Act...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 6/1997

Ewa Podles - Russian Arias

Mussorgsky’s Songs and Dances of Death really divide into two for women and two for men‚ though there is no...

Reviewed in issue 10/2002

Aureole

The flute and harp, each beautiful in itself and possessing Elysian associations, can together transport us into paradisal realms, and...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 7/1993

Giordano Andrea Chenier

The only thing to be done with Andrea Chenier, it is commonly argued, is to let three big, exciting and...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 11/1987

Glazunov Raymonda

If you want to be reminded just how great the three Tchaikovsky ballets really are – and why The Sleeping...

Reviewed in issue 8/1996

Rózsa Symphony in Three Movements; The Vintner's Daughter

Rozsa's only symphony has an intriguing history. Written in 1930, when the composer was 23, it was his first major...

Reviewed by rseeley in issue: 6/1994

Mozart Lieder

What is one to say except that this is another triumph for this superb partnership? For years Schreier has been...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1992

Ravel: Orchestral Works

Though a Ravel devotee, I must confess that my first reaction to the appearance of this record was to think,...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 12/1986

Mozart; Saint-George String Quartets

Recordings of Classical-period instrumental music from France are rare, but one composer who has fared marginally better than most is...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 5/2004

Beethoven/Debussy/Ravel Piano Works

Michelangeli once devoted a whole DG LP to Beethoven’s E flat major Sonata Op 7‚ not because his reading was...

Reviewed in issue 7/2002

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