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Donizetti L'Elisir d'amore

This set was none too well received by Philip Hope-Wallace when it first appeared in 1959. Twenty years later, in...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1994

Fibich Chamber Music

Fibich’s chamber music is not usually rated as highly by his compatriots as are his operas or orchestral music, or...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 1/1999

Beethoven Symphonies Nos 4 & 6

A general air of vitality and clear-headed musicianship has characterized this series so far, and the latest disc is no...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/1996

Bax Songs

Bax's songs tend to turn up in recitals in ones or twos at most, so it's interesting to hear a...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 5/1993

Gregorian Chant from the Vatican

St Peter was the rock; but those echoes are something else! They magnify and multiply, set a halo upon each...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 11/2000

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf sings Operetta

It is scarcely credible that it must be a full quarter of a century since I first revelled in the...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 1/1986

Reznicek Symphonies Nos 2 and 5

Who knows, perhaps a tighter performance might have helped, but Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek’s cheeky Second Symphony (the Ironic) of...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 3/2006

Bach Christmas Oratorio

This is Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and a recording which marks the centenary of the town's Bach Choir, the oldest of its...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 2/2000

Pierre Monteux

''The Early Years—Pierre Monteux'' it says on the box. The early years are, of course, those of Philips, not Monteux....

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/1994

Weill Street Scene

After faltering early attempts‚ European rec­ognition of Kurt Weill’s ‘Broadway opera’ Street Scene really began with the joint Scottish Opera/ENO...

Reviewed in issue 6/2002

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