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Strauss (Die) Fledermaus

It’s 33 years since I reviewed the soundtrack of this recording as a Decca album (4/75). I found it then...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 2/2008

Falla: Vocal & Orchestral Works

Anyone who has ever visited the unforgettably beautiful Moorish gardens, dominated by fountains, of the Palace built on the hills...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/1989

Dvorák Symphony No 2

Annotator Paula Kennedy informs us that when Dvorak revised his Second Symphony (22 years after completing it), he imposed severe...

Reviewed in issue 4/1996

Donizetti Maria di Rudenz

“The most resounding fiasco of Donizetti’s career” is Jeremy Commons’s phrase for the reception of this, his 59th opera, at...

Reviewed in issue 11/1998

Handel Alcina

This recording of Alcina had its genesis in the 1986 Handel tercentenary performances by Opera Stage at Christ Church Spitalfields...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 11/1988

Aguirre

This is another extrardinary CD from Los Otros who, true to their name, like to bring out the ‘otherness’ in...

Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 3/2005

Poulenc: Piano Works

This is the most enjoyable record of piano music that I have heard for ages; the sort of collection that...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 7/1987

Bruckner Symphony No 7

It was a Gramophone reader who first alerted me to the fact that the Japanese Denon label had acquired a...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 13/2007

Shostakovich The Dance Album

Having explored the various jazz elements of Shostakovich’s output in “The Jazz Album” (Decca, 3/93), Riccardo Chailly and the Philadelphia...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 12/1996

Greig Holberg Suite

Let me put my cards on the table and say that Katya Apekisheva is a young pianist who has already...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 9/2008

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