Vivaldi: Juditha Triumphans

Juditha Triumphans is Vivaldi's only surviving oratorio. He wrote it in 1716 for the musically gifted girls of the Ospedale...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 4/1991

Gluck Orfeo ed Euridice

Seekers after the true Orfeo, searchers for a first or replacement version for the shelves, pass by! Here is neither...

Reviewed in issue 4/1996

Verdi Ballet Music

This disc contains is well over an hour of ballet music which is meant to be heard within an operatic...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 6/1994

R. Strauss Symphonic music from operas

This collection arrived for review not long after I'd warmly praised Jeffrey Tate's rather more generous survey of Strauss's concert...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 7/1993

Rheinberger Suites for Organ,Violin and Cello

An unexpected delight: charming music, beautifully played and captured in an extraordinarily successful recording. It cannot have been easy to...

Reviewed in issue 3/1997

Bach Cantatas, Vol 15

The repository of Pilgrimage cantata performances continues to appear unabated, with an increasing optimism that all the fruits of this...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 12/2006

Dillon East 11th Street etc

Anyone who believes that avant-garde music must by definition be grey and joyless should give James Dillon a try. Dillon,...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 9/1992

Tavener/Bloch Works for Cello and Strings

John Tavener's Eternal Memory is—to quote the composer's own words—''the remembrance of death'', or (and here I turn to MS's...

Reviewed in issue 4/1994

Beethoven Diabelli Variations, Op. 120

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 8/2011

Vivaldi The Four Seasons

Admirers of Kyung-Wha Chung will hardly mind the poor value in time-length (Kennedy, also on EMI, does not have a...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/2001