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Verdi Don Carlo

It is almost 30 years since Giulini's epoch-making and revealing revival of Don Carlos at Covent Garden; it is 17...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1987

Britten Sacred and Profane; Elgar Part Songs; Vaughan Williams Shakespeare Songs

It is rather odd – and perhaps highly commendable – that the title chosen for the disc should be that...

Reviewed in issue 9/2002

Liszt Piano Works: Sergio Fiorentino - Early Recordings, Vol. 3

The third volume of Sergio Fiorentino’s early Liszt recordings made during the 60s unites the contemplative (Volume 1) and the...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 4/2001

Donizetti La fille du régiment

Even Dame Joan Sutherland has rarely if ever made an opera recording so totally enjoyable and involving as this. With...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/1986

Sole e Amore: Songs of Donizetti, Puccini & Verdi

In voice and personality, Nuccia Focile is a natural charmer, and for over a decade now has won hearts, with,...

Reviewed in issue 9/1996

J. E. Bach Passion Oratorio, etc.

Here is a rarity. Johann Ernst Bach, nephew, godson and pupil of J. S. Bach was born in 1722. After...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 11/1990

Verdi Requiem

The Barenboim has much going for it. The recording is on a par with the Telarc for Shaw in terms...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1994

Mahler Symphony 8

It’s always a surprise to hear a performance of Mahler’s Eighth in which Part 2 doesn’t come as an anticlimax....

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 4/2001

Works for Saxophone and Orchestra

As John Harle is equally capable of playing the alto saxophone in its topmost register to sound with the fluency...

Reviewed in issue 7/1992

Handel Belshazzar

Even while writing it, Handel was worried about Belshazzar being too long and scrapped some of what he had already...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 10/1991

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