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Review of Elisabeth Grümmer - Great Singers of the Century

Elisabeth Grümmer - Great Singers of the Century

The glorious Hansel on the classic Karajan recording for EMI of Humperdinck’s opera, a famed Donna Anna, Agathe, Elisabeth, Elsa...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: /2000

Review of Bach Cantatas

Bach Cantatas

This disc completes Christophe Coin’s three-disc survey of Bach cantatas which include an obbligato part for the five-string violoncello piccolo....

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 5/1996

Review of Simpson & Rawsthorne Piano Concertos

Simpson & Rawsthorne Piano Concertos

Here is one of the most welcome of the BBC’s raids on its own archives. Few top-flight virtuosos did as...

Reviewed in issue 12/1996

Review of Irmgard Seefried - Lieder Recital

Irmgard Seefried - Lieder Recital

''A thing of beauty is a joy forever.'' Of no singer could that be more truly spoken than of Seefried....

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1993

Review of Mozart String Quartets

Mozart String Quartets

One of the most striking features of the Franz Schubert Quartet's new issue of Mozart string quartets is their remarkable...

Reviewed in issue 6/1994

Review of Rushton (The) Shops

Rushton (The) Shops

Compulsive disorders make a fascinating subject for an opera, as Edward Rushton’s The Shops seeks to demonstrate. This revolves around...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 9/2008

Review of Zemlinsky: Es war einmal

Zemlinsky: Es war einmal

Recordings of Zemlinsky's operas have moved on from the powerful double bill of his maturity—Eine florentinische Tragodie and Der Zwerg—to...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 5/1991

Review of Miaskovsky Cello Works

Miaskovsky Cello Works

The two sonatas and the Concerto date from very different periods in Miaskovsky's long and prolific career, the First Sonata...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1994

Review of Scherzi from 17th Century Germany

Scherzi from 17th Century Germany

Reinhard Goebel has put together an imaginative sequence of pieces by Biber, Schmelzer and Walther—all, to a greater or lesser...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 1/1991

Review of Ravel: Piano Works

Ravel: Piano Works

According to the biographical note Minoru Nojima's career is centred on America and his native Japan rather than on Europe—which...

Reviewed in issue 10/1990


 

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