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Korngold (Die) tote Stadt

The production by Willy Decker of Korngold’s most famous opera at last year’s Salzburg Festival created something of a sensation....

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 11/2005

Handel Israel in Egypt

The complete 1739 first-performance version of Israel in Egypt, with the funeral anthem for Queen Caroline (1737) adapted into Part...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 8/2010

Dohnanyi; Janacek Violin Sonatas

Janácek and Dohnányi present an interesting contrast, both growing up within the Germanic Romantic milieu while conscious of a separate...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 7/2010

Mompou Música callada

Mompou called this collection of so-called “Silent Music”, inspired by the poet San Juan de la Cruz, “a weak heartbeat”...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 3/2007

Blumenfeld; Nápravník Works for Piano and Orchestra

Hyperion’s Romantic Piano Concerto project is, I believe, one of the most significant series of piano recordings ever undertaken. Given...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2005

Stanford Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No 2

It is not perhaps surprising that the key, opening flourishes and other episodes in this splendid concerto recall Rachmaninov’s Piano...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 5/2011

Tchaikovsky Orchestral Works

Such a triptych would have been unlikely before the advent of CD, where Tchaikovsky's powerful climaxes do not demand extra...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/1990

Shostakovich Odna

Although long known through various selections, Shostakovich’s second film score Odna (“Alone”) is only now available complete. This 1931 Kozintsev/Trauberg...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 2/2008

Cavallo Il Giudizio Universale

Volume 10, and one feels the surface has hardly been scratched. The series’ consultant musicologist, Dinko Fabris, who at the...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2000

R. Strauss Orchestral Works, Vol.1

It has been an uplifting experience—hard on the heels of Sinopoli's quirky Strauss offerings with the same orchestra (DG, 11/92)—to...

Reviewed in issue 12/1992

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