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Cheryl Studer sings Strauss and Wagner

A newcomer must enter the lists with some trepidation in a field so full of such glorious versions of the...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1994

Debussy Pelléas et Mélisande

This recording had dropped out of the catalogue when I wrote of Dutoit's performance on Decca that it was ''the...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 12/1991

Modern Masters I

How good once more to see the name Miklos Rozsa top-billed on something other than a film soundtrack album. Christopher...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 7/1991

Abert Ekkehard

This is one of the strangest operas that I have ever heard. Johann Joseph Abert (1832-1915) was born and educated...

Reviewed in issue 5/2001

Nielsen Symphonies 1 & 6

I liked Blomstedt's account of the Fourth and Fifth Symphonies (Decca (CD) 421 524-2DH, 10/88), and as some readers will...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 2/1990

Schubert Die Schöne Müllerin

We already have an embarrassment of riches on CD in performances of this cycle, but Holzmair, a name new to...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1989

Schubert Piano Works

This is highly distinguished Schubert playing, mellow and poised enough to suggest an artist of maturer years than Imogen Cooper...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1988

Handel Triumph of Time & Truth

Handel's oratorio, The Triumph of Time and Truth, was issued on two LPs in 1983. I enjoyed it when it...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 2/1987

Mendelssohn String Quartets Op 13 & 44

Gone are the days when recordings of Mendelssohn quartets were a rarity. Nearly every month, it seems, brings an addition...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 7/2004

Heath Sirocco

The Celtic was written in 1994 for Clio Gould and the BT Scottish Ensemble, who made a very fine recording...

Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 3/2003

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