Brahms (Ein) Deutsches Requiem

A front-runner among the 30 or so currently listed versions. Its speeds are unusually close to Brahms’s suggestions and are...

Reviewed in issue 9/1999

Richard Strauss conducts Strauss

All three performances last appeared on a DG five-LP set reviewed in January 1977 (nla), which included a 1926 Tod...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 5/1990

Stravinsky (The) Rake's Progress

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Mozart String Quintets, K406 & 516

The two RCA discs contain live performances given at four concerts in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art during 1984...

Reviewed in issue 9/1988

Richard Strauss Four Last Songs/Lieder

This is Barbara Hendricks’s second Strauss song recital in recent years, the first one having Ralf Gothoni as pianist in...

Reviewed in issue 6/1996

Handel Concerti grossi, Op. 6

No record company has been quite as discerning as Decca in its releases of Handel's great set of Concerti grossi,...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 8/1993

Boesmans Concertos

The best Belgian composer of recent times, Henri Pousseur, has been almost completely ignored by the record companies. Philippe Boesmans...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/1989

Wagner 1936 Bayreuth Festival - excerpts

These are essential performances that ought to be in any comprehensive collection of Wagnerian interpretation. Recorded during the 1936 Bayreuth...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1993

Pièces pour Deux Basses de Viole

As a vehicle for both recreation and delicacy of sentiment, the viola da gamba has a peerless lineage in the...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/1999

Sallinen (The) King goes forth to France

The King Goes Forth to France (1980-83) was Sallinen’s third opera and is regarded by many commentators as the composer’s...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 7/2006