Pacius Kung Karls Jakt; The Hunt of King Charles

Anna-Lisa Jakobson | Antti Suhonen | Finnish National Opera Orchestra | Johan Fagerudd | Jubilate Choir | Peter Lindroos | Pirkko Törnqvist | Tom Krause | Ulf Söderblom | Walton Grönroos

Grout is faintly dismissive of Kung Karls Jakt in his Short History of Opera (London: 1947): ''sometimes called the first...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 8/1992

Stanford Requiem

Adrian Leaper | Colette McGahon | Colman Pearce | Frances Lucey | Ireland National Symphony Orchestra | Nigel Leeson-Williams | Peter Kerr | RTE Philharmonic Choir | Virginia Kerr

It is most moving to hear this and to reflect that for the best part of a century – the...

Reviewed in issue 7/1997

KALKBRENNER Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 3

Howard Shelley | Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra

Friedrich (Frédéric) Wilhelm Michael Kalkbrenner (1785-1849) is remembered – if at all – as the figure who famously offered to...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2012

FRANZ Lieder

‘My Lieder are not meant to awake the passions, but to create peace and tranquillity’, wrote Robert Franz (1815 92)...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2017

Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On

The King’s Singers

A warm welcome to this attractive and wide-raging anthology of Romantic European and Scandinavian part-songs, spanning the years 1825-1951. Reger’s opening...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 06/2025

Cui (25) Preludes, Op 64

Jeffrey Biegel

This is a reissue of a Marco Polo disc from 1993‚ and it’s good to have it available at Naxos’s...

Reviewed in issue 6/2002

Schubert Piano Duets, Vol. 4

Harvey Dagul | Isabel Beyer

This is the fourth disc in an enjoyable Schubert series by a husband-and-wife team who met as students and established...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 4/1995

Méhul Overtures

Orchestre de Bretagne | Stefan Sanderling

It seems to me extraordinary, these days, that Etienne-Nicolas Méhul, the leading French opera composer of the Revolution, the Consulate...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 11/2003

Raff Orchestral Works

Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Kosice | Urs Schneider

Nine of Raff's 11 symphonies have now been recorded for Marco Polo, and there are even duplications—a situation that Raff,...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 8/1994

Dohnányi String Quartets Nos 2 and 3;Kodály Intermezzo

David Daniels | Lyric Quartet | Nick Barr | Patricia Calnan

Erno Dohnanyi’s output is nothing if not rich in contrasts: both slow movements of these appealing quartets are visited by...

Reviewed in issue 1/1998