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Massenet Amoureuse: Sacred and Profane Arias

Whether it is good tactics or even good manners to appeal directly to the reader I am never quite sure‚...

Reviewed in issue 3/2002

Constant Lambert Orchestral Works

There have been times when less of Constant Lambert than of Frank and Michel of that name has shown up...

Reviewed in issue 10/1992

Scriabin: Piano Works

This is one of the most beautiful recordings of piano sound that I have heard on CD. It is not...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 8/1986

Meyer String Quintet & Rorem String Quartet 4

On the face of it, this album has got a lot going for it. As ever the Emerson Quartet are...

Reviewed by mharry in issue: 6/1998

Dowland Lachrimae

It is most unlikely that Lachrimae was intended to be performed in its entirety, with all items played in their...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 2/2004

Cherubini Messa Solenne in G

These recordings show us the same conductor at work on the music of one composer over a period of 15...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 4/1989

De Clerck Canti

All but one of these compositions, inspired by poems, set the words. The booklet makes much of the light which...

Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 3/2003

Mozart Symphonies Nos 32, 35 & 36

This newest disc in John Eliot Gardiner's Philips series of the late Mozart symphonies will not disappoint those who have...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 9/1989

Brahms Choral Works

The great surprise for me in the Decca collection is Jard van Nes's superb performance of the Alto Rhapsody. When...

Reviewed in issue 8/1990

Prokofiev Symphony No 5; Ode to the End of the War

Having given us superb accounts of Tchaikovsky’s Third Suite and two Shostakovich symphonies (5/06 and 7/06), these artists seem less...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 1/2008

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