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Hindemith (Das) Marien-Leben

Hindemith’s cycle to Rilke’s 15 poems has not received attention in the studio to match its critical standing. There are...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 2/2009

Wagner/Mussorgsky Orchestral Works

The Wagner music is first, opening with an ebullient Lohengrin Prelude to Act 3 with an attractively believable clash to...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/1989

Valéry Gergiev in Rehearsal & Performance

Here is a DVD that delivers as much as it promises: which is to say‚ a great deal. The documentary...

Reviewed in issue 9/2002

Handel Vocal Duets

Considering what beguiling and inventive pieces they are, and the scope they offer for vocal artistry, Handel’s duets have not...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 12/1997

Puccini Tosca

Coming to this historic video recording after Muti’s La Scala version (see above) is to register a quite different operatic...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/2003

Fiocco Missa Solemnis

Joseph Hector Fiocco, known to many would-be pianists and violinists (and their parents) for a charming little Allegro, was a...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 5/2003

Nielsen Songs

Here is something truly exceptional: something to gladden the heart of Nielsen-lovers who have been looking for a single-disc survey...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 12/2003

Rutter Requiem

With many years' university chapel experience behind him, John Rutter should be well attuned to the ecclesiastical style; and this...

Reviewed in issue 11/1986

Missa Nigra sum: Mass and motets

The Song of Songs was a happy hunting ground for composers of the baroque, who found its erotic atmosphere so...

Reviewed in issue 4/1983

Scarlatti Sonatas

The enjoyment afforded by almost any collection of Scarlatti sonatas is here compounded by the splendidly meaty and mordant sound...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 9/1989

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