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Rubinstein (The) Demon

A good, and rare, opportunity to hear an opera that has kept its place in the repertoire in Russia but...

Reviewed in issue 2/1999

Vaughan Williams Symphonies

It has to be said that Slatkin's account of the Fifth Symphony contains some extremely fine things: superb playing from...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 4/1992

Voyage à Paris

Built with ingenuity (as always with Songmakers' Almanac programmes) around Poulenc's lifelong devotion to his native Paris—he never concealed his...

Reviewed in issue 10/1985

Dvorák; Janácek; Smetana Orchestral Works

Most eminent musicians who die in their early seventies have enjoyed around 50 years in the limelight and 20 or...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 6/2004

Bach Cantatas Nos 207a & 212

Rilling’s latest volume in his series of Bach’s secular cantatas gets off to a cracking start in No. 207a, a...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 7/1998

Schubert Goethe Lieder

I am in a considerable quandary about this disc. By most of the conventional yardsticks about what constitutes good singing...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1995

Brahms Symphony 4

Sir Georg Solti is a fine Brahms interpreter and I have greatly admired many of his performances; but I think...

Reviewed in issue 10/1985

Rossini Overtures

Riccardo Chailly's first-rate record of Rossini overtures for Decca appeared on CD in the month when the new medium was...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/1985

Haydn Divertimentos

One feature common to both of these recitals of chamber music by Haydn is first-rate ensemble playing. Flute, violin and...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 4/1987

Charpentier Vespres a la Vierge

This new release offers a liturgical reconstruction of the Vespers office. The five Vesper psalms and Magnificat belong to different...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 3/1996

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