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Solemn Mass in St Peter's Basilica, Rome

An amazing record, this: a performance of Mozart's Coronation Mass offered as a feast-day tribute to the Pope on St...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 7/1986

R. Strauss Orchestral Works

Klemperer may have been ambivalent (and hypocritical) in his attitude to Richard Strauss as a man, but when it came...

Reviewed in issue 5/1990

Gluck Ezio

Long before he set out to purge opera of excess and ‘abuses’ with his epoch-making Orfeo and Alceste, Gluck composed...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2011

Bach (Die) Kunst der Fuge

All manner of means have been assembled to realize this magnum opus of Bach’s final years, although recorded history tells...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 7/1999

Handel Poro, Re dell'Indie

Poro is the second, and certainly the best, of the three Handel operas based on texts by the young Metastasio—suitably...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 11/1994

Hersant Choral Works

Music of profound spirituality or glum monotony? I can imagine listeners having either of these responses, or elements of both,...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/2004

Verdi Il trovatore - highlights

A few seconds of A/B comparison between the CD and LP versions here illustrates the effortless superiority of the former:...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1985

Puccini Opera Arias

There are two essential Puccini recitals: one is Callas's 1954 EMI (CD CDC7 47966-2—to be reviewed later), the other this....

Reviewed in issue 10/1987

Gal Violin Concerto

Hard on the heels of Gál’s violin sonatas and Suite (8/10) comes this superb new disc featuring the pre-war Concerto...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 9/2010

Great Tenor Arias

In this engaging recital, the best he has recorded so far, Juan Diego Flórez goes from Gluck’s Orphée (1774) to...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 12/2004

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