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Gluck Iphigénie en Tauride

I cannot dissent from the opinion of my colleagues, JBS and SS, in finding this set unsatisfactory and as such...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1987

Chisholm Piano Works, Vol 1

Although this is music with a strong Scottish flavour, and Erik Chisholm (b1904) is a Scot, he emigrated to Cape...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/2005

Bartók Complete String Quartets

A new cycle of quartets Bartok quartets has to be pretty special if it is to stand out in such...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 12/1988

Handel Arias

Danielle de Niese can be seen as Hébé on the DVD of Rameau’s Les Indes galantes (Opus Arte, 4/06); but...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 6/2008

Boyce Solomon

Boyce's Solomon is not, like Handel's, a biblical oratorio about a wise king; it is a highly secular serenata whose...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 11/1990

Viva España!

An enjoyable, vivid compilation which will suit those who want to collect effortlessly some key works in the Spanish orchestral...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 7/1992

J. Strauss II Die Fledermaus at Covent Garden

These four productions are a fair representation of the state of Covent Garden in the early-1980s, internationally based, fairly conventional...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1997

Feldman Voices

On a blind listening I should never have guessed that the composer behind this weird and beguiling work was Morton...

Reviewed in issue 12/1990

Bruckner Sacred Choral Works

The Corydon Singers have already recorded some of Bruckner's rarer choral works (A66062, 3/83) and now they give us a...

Reviewed in issue 2/1986

Fauré/Duruflé Requiems

This disc is an experience not to be missed. For comparison we have John Rutter's recording of the Faure made...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 12/1989

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