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Clarke Premonitions

Anyone who knows Nigel Clarke solely from his brass band work will be in for a shock here. This is...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 13/1999

Puccini Manon Lescaut

The focus of interest in this new recording of Manon Lescaut must be Dame Kiri Te Kanawa's assumption of the...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 9/1988

Bach St John Passion

In his second recording of the St John Passion Philippe Herreweghe has chosen the second version of Bach’s score‚ from...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 12/2001

Russian Masterpieces

The Korean, Djong Victorin Yu, who apparently decided to be a conductor at the age of four(!), has come to...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 1/1995

Recital by Francis Poulenc and Denise Duval

A surprise on the record (whose contents are, confusingly, listed, and the bands on the CD not numbered) gives it...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 3/1987

Mozart Sacred Works

The Litaniae de venerabili altaris sacramento of 1775 has powerful claims to be reckoned the finest of Mozart's church works...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 6/1993

Mozart Die Zauberflöte

The Sawallisch recording of Die Zauberflote, made in the early 1970s, has not been generally available here before. Slightly surprisingly,...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 3/1988

Stalin Cocktail

I'm not sure how often I would want to hear this string orchestra version of what Rostislav Dubinsky, founder of...

Reviewed in issue 12/1995

Canciones Latinas

The 18-track journey through musical Latin America is an unusually attractive one, embracing seven countries and nine composers - including...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 13/1999

Wagner Siegfried

This is more than a worthy completion to the Bohm Ring, and convinces me that this is the most truthful...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1985

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