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Mnemosyne

‘A sign we are, inexplicable without pain ... .’ The words are by the nineteenth-century German poet Friedrich Holderlin, taken...

Reviewed in issue 5/1999

Benoit Motets

Among the vast acreage of 19th-century choral music there is a forgotten field of modest, parochial material. Typical are these...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 11/2003

Gounod Roméo et Juliette

Thanks to the advocacy of Leonard Slatkin and his team, Gounod’s romantic work, Romeo et Juliette, seems the epitome of...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1996

Rossini Guglielmo Tell

If ever there was a case for armchair opera—and on CD at that—it is Rossini's Guglielmo Tell. The very limitations...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 2/1987

Mozart: Orchestral works

An hour of the young Salzburgian Mozart, full of ideas and exploring instrumental interchanges at a great pace. There are...

Reviewed in issue 10/1985

Lamentations de la Renaissance

This is one of a special edition revisiting some of Harmonia Mundi’s more notable recordings to mark its 50-year history,...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 8/2008

Grokhovsky Orchestral Works

Born in Moscow in 1945, Vyacheslav Grokhovsky studied composition with Khachaturian and has had a number of his straightforward, well-crafted...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 12/2002

Berlioz (Les) Troyens

This Trojans from the 2000 Salzburg Festival – a perhaps belated local première, three years before the bi-centenary of Berlioz’s...

Reviewed by hcanning in issue: 1/2003

Telemann: Sonatas

This is a pleasant recital of solos and trios from various collections of Telemann's chamber music. It was recorded ten...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 8/1990

Grieg Orchestral Works

It was a pleasing idea to couple Grieg's Piano Concerto with others of his orchestral works instead of, say, the...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 7/1993

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