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Shore (The) Departed - OST

For Martin Scorsese's new thriller of duplicitous goings-on on the murkier side of Boston, Howard Shore has come up with...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 2/2007

Music on Hebrew Themes

A collective title like this is a convenient way of gathering together apparently diverse material. Prokofiev's Overture on Hebrew Themes...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 7/1990

The Best of Sir Henry J.Wood

I can only recall a handful of Wood reissues during the whole of the LP era, and even when historic...

Reviewed in issue 9/1994

La Clarinette Française

La clarinette francaise indeed, where the repertoire is concerned, but not where the style of playing is concerned. The French...

Reviewed in issue 10/1988

Rossini Stabat Mater

It looks as though the bad times are over for Rossini's Stabat mater. During the 1970s and 1980s an influential...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/1991

Verdi Otello

With the new Zeffirelli EMI Otello still resounding in the public ear and eye, and with AB's declaration (10/86) that...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 3/1987

Berlioz Roméo et Juliette

It does seem hard that, after a gap of 16 years, two new recordings of Berlioz's remarkable imaginative distillation of...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 1/1987

Mendelssohn Symphonies Nos 3 & 4

A fine new coupling of the Scottish and Italian Symphonies from the Prague Philharmonia under Belohlávek, beautifully played and warmly...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 13/2006

Shchedrin Old Russian Circus Music;Symphony No 2

After a long period of relative obscurity, the music of Rodion Shchedrin is making new friends in the West. His...

Reviewed in issue 9/1997

Rossini Il viaggio a Reims

Paris always brought out the epicure in Rossini: in the 1820s and again, after years of debilitating illness, in the...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 1/1986

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