Lehár Giuditta; Der Zarewitsch (highlights)

Alexander Braim | Alexander Peregudov | Alexandra Turchina | Andrei P. Atlantov | Boris M. Freitkov | Bronislava Zlatogorova | Edith Winkler | Emmy Loose | Erich Majkut | Georgi Nelepp

Lehar’s gloriously tuneful, sumptuously scored final stage work was composed for Richard Tauber and the Vienna State Opera. This loving...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 12/1998

Beethoven Symphony No 5; Mozart Sinfonia concertante, K297b

Daniel Barenboim | Mohamed Saleh | Mor Biron | Sharon Polyak | West-Eastern Divan Orchestra

This second CD from Daniel Barenboim’s astonishing West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, bringing together young Arab and Israeli musicians, is in many...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/2006

Puccini (La) Bohème

Francesca Zambello | Gino Quilico | Italo Tajo | Luciano Pavarotti | Mirella Freni | Nicolai Ghiaurov | San Francisco Opera Chorus | San Francisco Opera Orchestra | Sandra Pacetti | Stephen Dickson

This recording received a complimentary review from John Steane when it appeared in LaserDisc format back in May 1993. I...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/2000

Kurtág Játékok - excs

Aliz Asztalos | András Kemenes | Gábor Csalog | György Kurtág | Ha Neul-Bit | Márta Kurtág

Recording a complete edition of György Kurtág’s Játékok is no small undertaking: the combined eight volumes comprise myriad pieces of...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 7/2006

Strauss, R Salomé

Costantino Finucci | Italian International Orchestra | Massimiliano Caldi | Sofia Soloviy

With the ink barely dry on his salacious new opera, Strauss started adapting its vocal lines to the eccentric French...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 12/2008

Dusapin Perelà: Man of Smoke

Alain Altinoglu | Chantal Perraud | Daniel Gundlach | Friedemann Röhlig | Gilles Hubert | Gilles Yanetti | Hervé Martin | Isabelle Philippe | Isabelle Pierre | John Graham-Hall

For all the dearth of performances outside western Europe, Pascal Dusapin (b1955) is among the most significant composers at work...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 7/2005

Haydn Mass 11

David Willcocks | Helen Watts | King's College Choir, Cambridge | London Symphony Orchestra | Sylvia Stahlman | Tom Krause | William Brown

Having championed this recording in the face of all comers, I can hardly be surprised that Decca have recut and...

Reviewed in issue 6/1987

Kernis Second Symphony; Musica Celestis etc

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra | Hugh Wolff

This is the third disc in Argo’s series devoted to the music of the American composer Aaron Jay Kernis and...

Reviewed in issue 10/1997

Brahms Violin Sonatas

Kyung Wha Chung | Peter Frankl

I suspect that it was the First Sonata that elicted the fondest response from Kyung-Wha Chung and Peter Frankl. Theirs...

Reviewed in issue 12/1998

Vivaldi Cupido tu Vedi

Accademia Ottoboni is named after the cardinal who patronised important musicians in the group’s native Rome (although the cardinal himself...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2010