Musica Divina - German Sacred Music

Dresden Kreuzchor | Roderich Kreile

The choir is in splendid form: fine in blend, balance and tone, scrupulously precise, alert and responsive to the direction...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 9/2000

Raff Symphonies Nos 9 and 11

Bamberg Symphony Orchestra | Hans Stadlmair

With these discs Hans Stadlmair and the Bambergers complete their cycle of Raff’s 11 symphonies, half-forgotten works that had a...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 7/2006

Complete New English Hymnal, Vol 12

James Thomas | Michael Bawtree | Neil Taylor | Peter Heginbotham | Sheffield Cathedral Choir | St Edmundsbury Cathedral Choir

One doesn’t of course know how these things are allocated, but it does seem that St Edmundsbury have a particularly...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 10/2003

Kiri Te Kanawa - Famous Opera Arias & Songs

Andrew Davis | Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Boston Symphony Orchestra | Cologne Gürzenich Orchestra | English Chamber Orchestra | Esa-Pekka Salonen | Frederica von Stade | Gillian Knight | Glenn Gould | Ileana Cotrubas

Glenn Gould's interpretation of the Goldberg Variations (this is his second, stereo version) might be described as arresting, undoubtedly compelling,...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/2000

Wilhelm Furtwängler in Vienna

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra | Wilhelm Furtwängler | Wilma Lipp

Wilhelm Furtwangler’s Vienna Philharmonic discography is an unpredictable mix of bull’s-eyes and near-misses, with a couple of sleepy symphonic performances...

Reviewed in issue 10/1998

Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Sergei Rachmaninov

Sergey Rachmaninov

Rachmaninov’s playing presents the listener with a strange but delicious paradox. On the one hand, it is individualistic virtually to...

Reviewed in issue 10/1998

Cyprien Katsaris: Elective Affinities

Die Wahlverwandt-schaften is claimed by the booklet writer to be ‘possibly the best novel’ by Goethe. ‘It refers to the...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2017

Nikolai Petrov plays French Music

Nikolai Petrov

I must applaud Nikolai Petrov's imaginative approach to programme-planning. After the remarkable CD of Paganini-inspired piano works containing his stupendous...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 7/1988

Vadym Kholodenko plays Rachmaninoff & Medtner

Vadym Kholodenko

For his first solo disc after winning the Gold Medal at the 14th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition last year,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2014

Organ Transcriptions - Thomas Trotter

Thomas Trotter

When W. T. Best described his organ transcriptions of orchestral and operatic masterpieces as endeavouring ''to raise the musical taste...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 4/1994