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Hindemith Cardillac & Mathis der Maler excs

In its original (1926) version, Cardillac plays for a fast and furious hour and a half. The Wergo recording of...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/1991

Poulenc La Voix humaine

Auteuil 04 virgule 7 is on the line again. But one shouldn't make jokes. Poor woman, the situation is real...

Reviewed in issue 7/1994

Susan Bullock

Endearingly old-fashioned, these recitals mix songs and operatic arias indiscriminately, and present both with piano accompaniment. A pleasant change: you...

Reviewed in issue 11/1995

Beethoven; Mozart; Schubert Arias

Nothing very surprising about the list of composers but a second glance at the details of the programme will suggest...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 13/2005

Maxwell Davies Symphony No 2

If you've been attracted or knocked sideways by a Maxwell Davies piece—maybe the Eight Songs for a Mad King or...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 9/1994

Great European Organs No 63

Readers who have heard the Klais organs in Symphony Hall, Birmingham and St John’s Smith Square, London will know what...

Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 2/2003

Takemitsu Orchestral Works

First impressions, I have to admit, were not favourable: three works, two of them (November Steps and Eclipse) making at...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 8/1992

Schoenberg Moses und Aron

As far as recordings of Moses und Aron are concerned, history seems to be repeating itself. Back in November 1975,...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 4/1994

Organs of Mexico, Volume 3

Sallinen's operas and symphonies have stolen the limelight in recent years at the expense of other works fully worthy of...

Reviewed in issue 11/1985

Rossini Bicentenary Gala Concert

''What kept you?'' I am inclined to ask. It is over two years since the staging in New York's Avery...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/1994

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