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Virtuoso Arias. Edita Gruberová

Gruberova's voice sounds rather fuller on CD than it did on the equivalent LP, but the newer medium also accentuates...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1985

Previn A Streetcar Named Desire

‘We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.’ Stanley Kowalski to Blanche DuBois, or Tennessee Williams to Andre...

Reviewed in issue 4/1999

Pizzetti Assassinio nella cattedrale

TS Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral (1935) shares a similar fate with Pizzetti’s operatic treatment (1957) in that both –...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 7/2008

Bach English Suites Nos 1, 3 & 6

Even with the arrival of this frustrating, but often exciting new recording, Bach’s so-called English Suites remain ripe for further...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 6/1998

Verdi Ernani

It was Ernani, ''the one with the bandits'', that the heroine of Arms and the Man went to see when...

Reviewed in issue 8/1988

(L') invitation au Voyage

It will be hard, almost unnatural, to write this without saying ‘charming’ in every other sentence. But everything is quite...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 8/2006

Schubert Octet

The new Virgin issue enjoys an excellent recording, with a very well-managed balance. The Nash Ensemble play with much technical...

Reviewed in issue 4/1989

Glass Koyaanisqatsi

Godfrey Reggio’s extraordinary film has become as famous for Glass’s remarkable music as for its visual imagery, which depicts the...

Reviewed by rthomas in issue: 12/1998

Souvenirs from Meyerbeer Operas

The initials IRCC were once as familiar to the specialist collector of old vocal records as was, say, HMV to...

Reviewed in issue 9/1992

Beethoven; Gershwin Piano Concertos

Both concertos are new to the Cherkassky discography, doubly welcome as they are live performances, the environ in which this...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 7/2008

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