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Debussy Pelléas et Melisande

This is, in every respect, a model of what a DVD ought to be, a perfect realisation in picture and...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/2003

Guettel Myths & Hymns

The myths came first. The hymns were drawn from an old hymnal found in a second-hand bookshop. Songs began to...

Reviewed in issue 8/1999

Handel Chandos Anthems, Vol. 2

In February I reviewed the first volume in what is to be a complete set of Handel's Chandos Anthems. Handel's...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 8/1989

Organ Recital

The record is well named ''A Feast Of Organ Exuberance''. Leidel's Toccata delectatione splits the welkin with its jazz/rock onslaughts,...

Reviewed in issue 3/1987

Mahler Symphony Nos 2 & 10

Writing in the June issue‚ Edward Seckerson had qualms about the essential tameness of Riccardo Chailly’s Resurrection‚ and it’s a...

Reviewed in issue 9/2002

Gluck Orphée

Alice Raveau first sang the title-role in Orphee at the Opera-Comique in 1908. By the time she came to make...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 12/1995

Rossini Petite messe solennelle

The two historically outstanding recordings of Rossini's Petite messe solennelle, Sawallisch's on Eurodisc/BMG and Cleobury's on EMI, both take up...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/1990

Bergman The Singing Tree

Musically, this issue is a triumph: the magnum opus of one of the leading Finnish composers in an excellent and...

Reviewed in issue 5/1993

Telemann Fantaisies

Telemann published his 12 Fantaisies for solo transverse flute, ''senza basso'', in about 1732-3. It was the beginning of a...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 9/1985

Cage; Otte Orient/Occident

The Wergo label has gone to considerable effort to sex up its image recently, with striking cover art and an...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 11/2008

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