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Verdi/Liszt Complete Opera Transcriptions and Paraphrases

This recital of the complete Verdi-Liszt operatic paraphrases is an exact duplication of Claudio Arrau's much-celebrated Philips LP (now part...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/1994

Handel Recorder Sonatas

Ideas of what constitutes the recorder sonatas of Handel tend to vary. For Frenchman Hugo Reyne it means the four...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 9/1992

Habñera

The Berlin Academy for Ancient Music are an ensemble of musicians who play period instruments—and very well, too. They were...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 7/1987

Moniuszko Halka

Halka has held the stage in Poland ever since the premiere of its final four-act version in 1858; in Warsaw...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 8/1988

Giuseppe Morino King of Bel Canto

I don't like ''King Of Belcanto'' which is this record's title, but I do (with some qualifications) like Giuseppe Morino....

Reviewed in issue 10/1990

Huw Spratling Choral Works

Now in his late forties, Huw Spratling is a composer with a long list of works to his name, but...

Reviewed in issue 3/1997

Mozart Piano Concertos

Three modern recordings of the D minor Piano Concerto on period instruments have now appeared here since the beginning of...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 5/1988

Brahms/Bruckner String Quintets

Comparing the Brandis and Melos Quartets in Bruckner’s Quintet is fascinating in that the former draws – by interpretative inference...

Reviewed in issue 12/1996

Missa Brevis

Created in 2006 by the English choral director Mark Opstad, the Maîtrise de Toulouse offers a specialist musical education to...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 3/2011

Massenet Werther (Eng)

John Copley’s production, on which this live recording is based, was effectively the staging that put Werther into the operatic...

Reviewed in issue 7/2000

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