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Mahler Vocal Works

This fascinating, if perverse, mid-price compilation is a typical product of EMI's Rouge et Noir series. That is to say...

Reviewed in issue 8/1992

Dutilleux Orchestral Works

This is the third issue in the Chandos Dutilleux series with the BBC Philharmonic and Yan Pascal Tortelier, and will...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 2/1998

Bizet Carmen

Carmen has a long history on film, from the early silent days when Régina Badet, prima ballerina of the Opéra-Comique,...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 4/2003

Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem, 'German Requiem'

‘How slow!’ one thinks, as the opening bars insist on the rule of Time, the great comforter. A few years...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 9/2003

Brahms Orchestral Works

The recording of this new version of the symphony is nicely reverberant and quite mellow, though detail registers clearly enough....

Reviewed in issue 11/1987

Kagel; Schnittke Piano Trios

The idea of putting pieces by Mauricio Kagel and Alfred Schnittke on the same disc at first seemed unlikely, but...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 7/2006

Lajtha Piano Works

High claims are made by Hungarians for the music of Laszlo Lajtha, and he himself had considerable success as a...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 4/1993

Bach Christmas Oratorio

History has not judged kindly the revisiting of major Bach choral works by eminent conductors. Here is the exception. Nikolaus...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 12/2007

Rimsky-Korsakov Sheherazade

A very decent Sheherazade in the mould of what one might call a slick Western perception of Eastern promise. Gerard...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 7/2011

Martinu Cello Concertos Nos 1 & 2

The performance history of Martinu’s concertos is a chequered affair, with many works not reaching the concert platform in his...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2009

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