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Panufnik & Sessions Orchestral Works

To renew acquaintance with two of the commissions of the BSO's centenary in 1981 is to be impressed afresh by...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 7/1989

Roussel Symphonies 1-4

In his “Quarterly retrospect” in August 1996, RL pointed out that “while Bartok has always had a following among the...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 5/1998

Janacek Katia Kabanová

This is an excellent production of an opera whose plot causes it to fall just short of greatness. Kát’a is...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 4/2011

Bach (The) Well Tempered Clavier , Book 1

Pierre Hantaï is nothing if not enigmatic. This is an account of Book 1 whose 24 Preludes and Fugues will...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 6/2003

Leoncavallo Pagliacci

These famous recordings have been transferred to CD many times already (three of Cav in the current catalogue‚ five of...

Reviewed in issue 10/2001

Telemann Orpheus

Some readers may already have heard this performance of Telemann’s three-act opera, Orpheus, oder die wunderbare Bestandigkeit der Liebe (“Orpheus,...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 3/1998

Berio Sequenzas I-XIV

When Deutsche Grammophon issued the “first complete recording” of Berio’s Sequenzas in 1998 they couldn’t have known that events were...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 10/2006

Franck/Chausson Chamber Works

Franck completed his Piano Quintet in 1879, at the start of the extraordinary last decade of his life that was...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 12/1992

Verdi Rigoletto

Muti's previous recording of this opera is only six years old. That was made with the forces of La Scala...

Reviewed in issue 12/1995

Music for the Sistine Chapel

During the second half of the fifteenth century the papal choir was established in what was to remain its final...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 8/1987

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