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Verdi Un ballo in maschera

It is extraordinary how some operas never receive satisfactory recordings while others never get poor ones. Ballo is happily in...

Reviewed in issue 11/1988

Haydn Symphonies

This could well represent the start of a new generation of Haydn symphony recordings, not just because Sir Simon Rattle...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 1/1996

Christmas with Chanticleer

The famous San Francisco group (12 singers‚ all male‚ covering just about four octaves from top to bottom) join forces...

Reviewed in issue 12/2001

Stravinsky: Works for Violin and Piano

Stravinsky made a number of violin and piano arrangements in the late 1920s for Paul Kochanski, but it was not...

Reviewed in issue 8/1989

R. Strauss Der Rosenkavalier

These issues are welcome additions to the all-too-small discography of Krauss as an opera conductor. They also chronicle the union...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1996

Grainger Orchestral Works

This LP is from the series of records of British music by the Bournemouth Sinfonietta sponsored by Harveys of Bristol,...

Reviewed in issue 8/1984

Mad Songs

Last year I reviewed a disc entitled ''English Mad Songs and Ayres'' (Dorian, 5/92) in which the 'mad' quotient was...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 2/1993

Beethoven Symphonies

Once it is accepted that this is going to be—pardon the cliche—old-fashioned classical-romantic Beethoven, there's a lot to enjoy here....

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 12/1992

Ligeti: Choral and Orchestral Works

Ligeti's discovery, based on the merest hints in Bartok, of the rich musical seam of micropolyphony, has an assured place...

Reviewed in issue 10/1989

Music in the time of Velázquez

La Romanesca is a recently formed Spanish group which bears witness to the extraordinary surge of interest in early music...

Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 11/1994

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