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Vivaldi Orlando Furioso

This much­travelled production‚ first seen in Verona in 1979‚ had a cast of especially powerful voices by the time it...

Reviewed in issue 11/2001

Verdi (Un) ballo in maschera

1990 was the last year of the ancien régime at the Salzburg Festival before the revolution brought about by Gérard...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/2006

Hindemith Kammermusik Nos 2, 3, 6 & 7.

Not so long ago recordings of Hindemith's Kammermusiken were few and far between; now there are at least five available...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 5/2000

Hindemith: Orchestral Works

A quarter of a century after his death, Hindemith's reputation is recovering after the slump that seems to set in...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 10/1988

Tchaikovsky The Queen of Spades

At first sight this looks like the video equivalent of the recent Kirov/Philips account of the opera on CD (10/93)....

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1994

Mozart: Die Entführung, etc

Beecham made all too few recordings of Mozart operas, so this CD reissue, in spite of a number of drawbacks,...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1991

Mozart Piano Works

This was the first CD I'd played in my own study and, with eyes shut, the illusion was complete: Mitsuko...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 7/1984

Gluck Armide

‘Perhaps the best of all my works’, said Gluck of his Armide. But this, the fifth of his seven ‘reform...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 6/1999

Bach Trio sonatas

These six sonatas, said by Forkel to have been written for Wilhelm Friedemann (Bach's eldest son) as exercises on a...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 6/1989

Krenek Symphonies Nos 1 and 5

Listening now to Ernst Krenek’s bracing First Symphony (1921), one can readily understand what electrified the audience at its premiere...

Reviewed in issue 1/1997

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