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STRAUSS Ein Heldenleben. Burleske (Bertrand Chamayou)
Antonio Pappano | Bertrand Chamayou | Santa Cecilia Academy Orchestra, Rome
The two performances on this often remarkable album were recorded almost three years apart, with Heldenleben taped live in Rome,...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 06/2021
Hindemith String Quartets Nos 3 and 5
An integral survey of the Hindemith quartets is long overdue, and now two have appeared (the second still in progress),...
Reviewed in issue 10/1996
Schubert Die Verschworenen, D787
The Viennese dramatist, Ignaz Castelli, wrote Die Verschworenen (“The Conspirators”) as a riposte to complaints that there were no good...
Reviewed in issue 2/1997
Beethoven Symphonies 1 - 9
As budget-price sets of the Nine go, this Mackerras cycle has never really had a clear run at the competition....
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 1/2003
Ives/Barber Orchestral Works
Detroit Symphony Orchestra | Neeme Järvi
There isn't much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that the prolific Jarvi hasn't at least touched upon in his...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 3/1992
Home: American String Quartets
The Miró Quartet’s new album, ‘Home’, offers a discourse on the themes thrown up by the title: a nation’s people...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 08/2024
Victoria de los Angeles The Early Recordings, 1942-53
It was a revelation when I first heard the golden voice of Victoria de los Angeles, around the time when...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/1996
Zelter: Lieder
Aribert Reimann | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Probably the most important relationship in Carl Zelter's life was his friendship with Goethe, and it is ironic that this...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1985
Milhaud Early String Quartets and Vocal Works, Vol. 2
Here is the second disc in a series which I welcomed last year (5/95). The unusual idea of mixing Milhaud’s...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 6/1996
Farewell to Salzburg
Charles Spencer | Christa Ludwig
On August 9th, Christa Ludwig took her leave of Salzburg in a valedictory recital programme already set down for posterity...
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 10/1993
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