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Handel Alexander's Feast

Handel's Alexander's Feast is neither fish nor fowl, opera nor oratorio, yet wears the plumes and scales of both genres....

Reviewed in issue 10/1991

Chamber works by Schoenberg and Webern

The LaSalle Quartet's boxed LP set of Schoenberg, Berg and Webern (DG 2720 029, 11/71) has held its place in...

Reviewed in issue 2/1987

Wagner (Das) Rheingold

Fifty years after John Culshaw bullied an extremely nervous Decca into recording Das Rheingold in the studio, the work’s first...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 8/2009

The Stokowski Sound - Orchestral Transcriptions

It was Stokowski and Walt Disney's Fantasia which combined to inspire my initial indoctrination to classical music and in the...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/1988

Chausson; Duparc Songs

Each of these discs has a good claim on our attention‚ but there’s little doubt which will gain the largest...

Reviewed in issue 10/2001

Flower Drum Song Original London Cast

Such was the stature and public popularity of Rodgers and Hammerstein at the end of the 1950s that a show...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 12/1994

Dudley Black Book - OST

The star of this film and the highlight of the CD is the Dutch actress Carice Van Houten, who performs...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 4/2007

Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos 4 & 5

Till Fellner, always among the more quietly celebrated pianists, includes Alfred Brendel among his mentors and together with Kent Nagano...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/2010

Cannabich Symphonies

Christian Cannabich (1731-98) was for many years director of the Mannheim court orchestra, the greatest virtuoso band of its day,...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 12/1998

Songs of Scotland

It looks simple, it sounds simple, but I imagine a good deal of thought has gone into it: ‘it’ being...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/2000

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