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Puccini Madama Butterfly

Though scarcely a 'classic' account of Madama Butterfly, this recording deserves issue on CD on account of its three central...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 9/1988

Wagner Der Ring des Nibelungen

''Not again!'' could be the seasoned reader's reaction to the above heading. But even classics of the gramophone have to...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 3/1989

Antoine Brumel

Antoine Brumel is perhaps best known to modern audiences as the composer of the magnificent 12-voice Mass Et ecce terre...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 3/1998

Schubert Octet

There is something not absolutely right about the first sustained note of the Octet as played here, the clarinet's intonation...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 9/1992

Maes Orchestral Works

There is always a temptation to label lushly scored neo-romantic symphonies as 'potential film music', and yet a minute or...

Reviewed in issue 11/1995

Wagner Götterdämmerung

Recorded “live” over two nights at Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall last May, this performance serves as both culmination of, and progress...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 7/2010

Mozart Opera Arias

Sandrine Piau’s pure‚ well­focused yet warm soprano serves well in these Mozart arias. It is those in the early operas...

Reviewed in issue 8/2002

Beethoven Rasumovsky Quartets Op 59, Nos 1-3

Playing on the celebrated set of Strads collected by Paganini and previously used by the Cleveland Quartet, the Tokyo produce...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 2/2006

Parlour Pieces Vol 1

I had little idea what to expect from this record, with the names of neither the performers nor some of...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 1/1985

Dvorák Chamber Works

One of the best-known chamber works by Dvorak coupled with one of the least known. The Portland Quartet, who come...

Reviewed in issue 12/1986

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