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Poulenc Sacred Vocal Works

There are at the moment eight available recordings both of the Stabat mater and of the Litanies, and six of...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 4/1996

Lukaszewski Via Crucis

Hyperion’s earlier disc of Lukaszewski’s music (A/08) left me feeling that the Polish composer’s idiom was short-breathed, although highly effective...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 7/2009

Krenek Jonny spielt auf

Krenek always resisted the description of Jonny spielt auf as a 'jazz opera'. In part, no doubt, he was reacting...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 4/1993

Britten Cello Suites

If William Butt had played as persuasively throughout as he does in the long final movement of Britten’s Third Suite...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 7/2004

Strauss, R Salome

For all its nudity – whores at the start, an executioner who strips off before descending to decapitate Jochanaan –...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 2/2009

Elgar Chamber Works

In his notes for this reissue Andrew Neill repeats the familiar, but still touching story of how the two main...

Reviewed in issue 1/1994

Two American ballets

The Albany label was established initially to promote the music of our own George Lloyd. Now it has expanded across...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 3/1990

Elgar Works for Violin and Piano

And still they come! This is the fourth new version of Elgar’s Violin Sonata to have come my way since...

Reviewed in issue 7/2001

Vivaldi: Concertos

What is unique here is not the arrival of three 'year-books' at once, but to find that they have all...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 11/1991

Dittersdorf Chamber Works

Michael Kelly, the first Don Basilio in Figaro, recalls a Viennese quartet party in 1784 at which ''the players were...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/1993

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