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Verdi I Lombardi

''Full of life, musical colour and emotion, yet incapable of a satisfactory production except perhaps in symbolica terms, I lombardi...

Reviewed in issue 11/1989

Bach Easter Oratorio; Cantata 4

The Easter Oratorio, Kommt, eilet und laufet (BWV249) is the most neglected of all Bach's major vocal works on disc....

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 7/1994

Opera Arias

As if in answer to last month’s Singertalk, a major company issues a recital by this admirable tenor – and...

Reviewed in issue 11/1999

Scarlatti, A (La) Griselda

Griselda was performed only once at Rome’s Teatro Capranica in 1721, towards the end of Alessandro Scarlatti’s career. It was...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2003

Bizet Carmen (highlights)

Having already issued Karajan's version of Carmen complete on CD, DG might have given a break to the preferable Abbado...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1985

Russian Orchestral Works

Gliere's ballet suite and Knipper's symphony might not appear to have much in common but their coupling is an inspiration...

Reviewed in issue 7/1989

Firsova (The) Mandelstam Cantatas

Elena Firsova declares her settings of Osip Mandelstam to be her most important works, and this selection of three of...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 3/2005

Virtuoso Piano Transcriptions

On this record Earl Wild celebrates his eightieth birthday in inimitable style. Letting down his snow white hair he thunders...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/1995

Vasks String Quartets

This first recording of the three Peteris Vasks quartets opens with the most recent and best. Written in 1995, the...

Reviewed in issue 7/1999

Mass for the End of Time

For their tenth recording and their first of the new millennium, Anonymous 4 have decided to go apocalyptic. Not that...

Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 11/2000

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