Twilight & Innocence

Heidi Grant Murphy | Kevin Murphy

If you want an hour or so of music ‘ever to seem falling asleep in a half dream’ here it...

Reviewed in issue 5/1999

(The) Maiden' s Prayer

Philip Martin

‘Old ones, new ones, loved ones, neglected ones’ – Semprini’s incantation on his popular television recitals and long-running radio programme...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2003

The Women's Philharmonic - Orchestral Works

Angela Cheng | Gillian Benet | JoAnn Falletta | Women's Philharmonic Orchestra

As the heading reveals, the San Francisco-based Women's Philharmonic Orchestra recently won an award enabling them to record a two-volume...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 2/1993

Homage to Clara Haskill and Dinu Lipatti

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra | Clara Haskil | Dinu Lipatti | Eugen Jochum | Paul Sacher | South West German Radio Orchestra

Here is a unique item for collectors, a loving and lavishly presented memento of two incomparable Romanian pianists whose tragically...

Reviewed in issue 8/2001

Humoresque Favourite Violin Encores

Columbia Symphony Orchestra | Frank Brieff | Isaac Stern | Milton Katims

I am not quite sure what ''Humoresque'' actually means; but although it certainly serves for identification, it only doubtfully describes...

Reviewed in issue 7/1990

SVENDSEN Octet Op 3 BRUCH Concerto for String Octet

Tharice Virtuosi

There is a surprisingly contrasted programme on this disc, which looks at first to be a slightly esoteric survey of...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: AW/2012

Icon - Fritz Kreisler

Arpad Sándor | Eugene Goossens | Franz Rupp | Fritz Kreisler | John Barbirolli | Kreisler Quartet | Landon Ronald | Malcolm Sargent | Michael Raucheisen

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 8/2009

Sacred Songs and Arias

(Anonymous) Orchestra | Alois Melichar | Anthony Bernard | Beniamino Gigli | Berlin State Opera Chorus | Berlin State Opera Orchestra | Bruno Seidler-Winkler | Carlo Sabajno | Elisabeth Schumann | Enrico Caruso

Collections of 'great singers' in music such as this normally attract me just about as much as nineteenth-century stained-glass, which...

Reviewed in issue 1/1993

(The) Cleveland Orchestra/Christoph von Dohnányi - Live Performances 1984 through 2001

Andrew Foldi | Celina Lindsley | Christoph von Dohnányi | Cleveland Orchestra | Cleveland Orchestra Chorus | Garrick Ohlsson | Günter Reich | Helga Pilarczyk | Jaroslav Kachel | Julian Patrick

I started listening to this set immediately after emerging from an extended session with EMI’s ‘Great Conductors of the 20th...

Reviewed in issue 5/2002

JS BACH St Matthew Passion

Arjen van Gijssel | Chantal Nijsingh | Consensus Vocalis | Elske te Lindert | Helena Rasker | Jan Willem de Vriend | Judith Van Wanroij | Jürg Dürmüller | Maarten Koningsberger | Marcos Fink

The historical interest of Mendelssohn’s text of the St Matthew perhaps lies less in the details of the version than...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 07/2015