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La Grande Notte a Verona

It may have been a grande notte at Verona but it was a very indifferent one in my home. The...

Reviewed in issue 2/1990

Saint-Saëns Chamber Works

Saint-Saens's Carnaval des animaux was not heard publicly until after his death and the original version, scored for 11 players,...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/1989

Rachmaninov Aleko

With the appearance of Neeme Jarvi’s three-disc set of the Rachmaninov operas, starrily cast and smoothly engineered, several older Russian...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 2/2001

Adams I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky

John Adams’s third opera, I was looking at the Ceiling and then I saw the Sky, differs from its predecessors,...

Reviewed in issue 2/1999

Mozart Sacred Choral Works

This timely issue of the Requiem does, I think, approximate more closely to what might have been heard at the...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 11/1991

Iberian Chamber Works

Images of Spain in various post-Falla veins, plus a soupcon of jazz in Palomar’s pieces, are played with conviction by...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 7/2000

Bizet Carmen

The text here is that used for the opera's premiere, and in the present state of play there is a...

Reviewed in issue 6/1991

Guerrero Choral Works

A hitherto unrecorded Mass by one of the masters of Spanish polyphony? In this age of plenty and surfeit, it...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 7/2011

Handel Silla

‘The worst libretto Handel ever set … the construction is clumsy, the characterisation incredible,’ wrote Winton Dean, with his typical...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 3/2001

Georges Thill (1897-1984)

Thill’s Wagner (three examples here) is indeed perfectly sung (as Schwarzkopf is reported to have declared), but as for expression...

Reviewed in issue 12/1998

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