Search the Reviews Database

Bellini I Capuleti e i Montecchi

Bellini obviously loved his Giulietta. Every bar of her music evinces his empathy with her vulnerable, lovelorn being. It is...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/2000

Dohnányi Symphony No 1; American Rhapsody

Since reviewing Leon Botstein’s spectacularly well recorded account of the First Symphony with the London Philharmonic, I have had time...

Reviewed in issue 4/1999

Facets of Benjamin Britten

Courtesy of tapes owned by Lord Harewood, the two Aldeburgh performances of Mozart works with Britten as soloist amply demonstrate...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/2005

Lehár Love was a Dream

Alfie Boe has gained plaudits not least as Camille in The Merry Widow at the Coliseum. It’s perhaps a surprise,...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 12/2009

Hába Complete Nonets

Haba’s copious outpouring of chamber music includes much that experimented with different harmonic systems. These four nonets give a fair...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 9/1996

Lassus Penitential Psalms

Philippe Herreweghe’s recording of Lassus’s last work, Lagrime di San Pietro (Harmonia Mundi, 8/94), is one of the finest recordings...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 6/2006

Schumann Piano Works

All praise to Bernd Glemser for including the rarely heard Vier Klavierstucke in this pleasing Schumann miscellany. Though linked by...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 10/1994

Bach Mass in B minor

Thankfully, recent recordings of Bach's great legacy for future generations (if we can believe that the B minor Mass was...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/1994

Debussy Pelléas et Mélisande

It would have to be some sort of musical saint, I think, who could put hand to heart and swear...

Reviewed in issue 6/1994

Handel Messiah (arr. Mozart)

Mozart's arrangement of Handel's Messiah dates from early 1789 and was intended for performance at the private concerts of Baron...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 5/1992

---

 

Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews

Gramophone Guides

---

---

---

---

---

---