Barbirolli & the New York Philharmonic 'live'

John Barbirolli | New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra

On the whole, these recordings tell, as did the Tchaikovsky, Schumann and Wagner recordings before them, of a very special...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 1/1999

Crista Miller: Bonjour and Willkommen

Crista Miller

The 19th pipe organ built by Martin Paso and Associates and housed in Houston’s relatively new Co‑Cathedral of the Sacred...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW17

Organ Spectacular

Noel Rawsthorne

This is the sort of experience which makes small boys want to become organists. Not only is it first-class entertainment,...

Reviewed in issue 7/1985

Mendelssohn Paulus

Three viable recordings here, each with merit enough to justify purchase, and each with a short-coming to raise doubt. All...

Reviewed in issue 1/1989

Jubilate

Aled Jones | Andrew Carwood | Cathedral Choristers of Britain | St Paul’s Cathedral Choir

Britain’s tradition of cathedral music-making is one of its greatest cultural legacies. This new recording from Andrew Carwood and St...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 05/2017

(An) Evening Hymn - Works for Solo Treble

Christopher Robinson | Christopher Whitton | Graham Walker | Oliver Lepage-Dean | St John's College Choir, Cambridge

This recital, An Evening Hymn, takes its title from Purcell’s setting of serenly beautiful lines to a ground bass that...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 4/2003

SCHUBERT Cello Sonata BRAHMS Cello Sonata

Antonio Meneses | Maria João Pires

It’s hard not to be a bit sad for Wigmore Hall Live that they didn’t get this one but it’s...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 12/2013

Betrachte, meine Seel

Dresden State Opera Chorus | Sebastian Weigle | Sibylla Rubens | Staatskapelle Dresden | Thomas Quasthoff

In this grand sweep of German sacred arias, covering more than 100 years from Bach in 1724 to Mendelsssohn’s Elijah...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2006

Great Sacred Arias

Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra | Peter Schreier | Uwe Heilmann

There is a refreshing involvement of the whole sensibility here. The oratorio-style has traditionally been kept distinct from the operatic,...

Reviewed in issue 3/1995

Wolfgang Holzmair: Wunderhornlieder

Thérèse Lindquist | Wolfgang Holzmair

Early in the 19th century Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano assembled the Knaben Wunderhorn collection of German folk poems,...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2014