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Dvorák Symphony No 1; The Hero's Song

The first of Dvorak's nine symphonies and the last of his symphonic poems come here in a generous coupling, both...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/1989

Schein: instrumental works

The title Banchetto Musicale, taken from Schein's publication of 1617, is a reminder that a great deal of early seventeenth-century...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 8/1986

Mozart Duo Sonatas, Vol 3

Not for Geoffrey Govier and Catherine Mackintosh is the slow movement of K376 “a dreamy reverie in the form of...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 13/2010

Berlioz Te Deum

On sonic grounds this all but 20-year-old recording, even in its CD transfer, has to yield to the more recent...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 4/1988

Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 3

Concerto, soloist and record label are all shown in a rather unflattering light by this strange enterprise. So many elements...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 2/2005

Verdi I Lombardi

''Full of life, musical colour and emotion, yet incapable of a satisfactory production except perhaps in symbolica terms, I lombardi...

Reviewed in issue 11/1989

Bach Easter Oratorio; Cantata 4

The Easter Oratorio, Kommt, eilet und laufet (BWV249) is the most neglected of all Bach's major vocal works on disc....

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 7/1994

Opera Arias

As if in answer to last month’s Singertalk, a major company issues a recital by this admirable tenor – and...

Reviewed in issue 11/1999

Scarlatti, A (La) Griselda

Griselda was performed only once at Rome’s Teatro Capranica in 1721, towards the end of Alessandro Scarlatti’s career. It was...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2003

Bizet Carmen (highlights)

Having already issued Karajan's version of Carmen complete on CD, DG might have given a break to the preferable Abbado...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1985

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