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Garcia Spanish Songs

The most famous tenor of his day (for whom Rossini wrote the role of Almaviva and the founder of a...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 2/1999

Britten Choral Works

Rarely can the ''Choral Dances'' from Gloriana have danced with such delicacy as they do here. Ian Partridge displays all...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 8/1992

Chausson & Ravel Piano Trios

This is not, of course, the Beaux Arts' first recording of Ravel's Trio. A previous LP version of theirs, on...

Reviewed in issue 4/1985

Puccini Turandot

Caballe Turandot sounds like miscasting, but in fact she's more often illuminating than over-stretched in the role. Yes, there are...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 12/1994

Bax Piano Works

What if the self-styled decadent aesthetic of Tsarist Russia had the Revolution not been dynamited in its homeland, and had...

Reviewed in issue 11/1992

Franck Organ Works

Of particular interest here are six pieces from L'organiste, a collection of 59 pieces (Franck originally intended there to be...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 3/1991

Bruno Walter conducts Berlioz and Mendelssohn

This successor to BIS’s disc of last December which included the Sixth Symphony contains another, the Seventh – the third...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 13/1998

Liszt (The) Complete Piano Works

When Leslie Howard launched his complete Liszt cycle for Hyperion in 1985, could he have anticipated the amount of research,...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 6/2011

Fisher, G (The) Passion of St Thomas More

Born in Michigan in 1970‚ Garrett Fisher has a seemingly limitless capacity to absorb multi­cultural influences. He points to his...

Reviewed in issue 5/2002

Berlioz Requiem

The items by Verdi and Boito (the aptest of neighbours), previously issued on LP and well received at the time,...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 9/1985

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