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Jeux d'Enfants

The famous opening Charpentier Te Deum Fanfare sounds a bit thin - it ideally needs period instruments, but the Bizet...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 6/2000

New Year's Concert 2004

Whether it’s one’s first New Year Concert or 50th, there’s still something magical about the annual transmission from Vienna. It...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 3/2004

Telemann Cantatas for Alto

Only last month I welcomed a Capriccio disc of cantatas and songs by Telemann sung by Rene Jacobs. The programme...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 12/1992

Birtwistle Refrains and Choruses

This satisfying compilation spans more than 40 years of Birtwistle‚ from a piano piece written in his mid­teens (Oockooing Bird)...

Reviewed in issue 11/2001

Børresen Symphonies 2 & 3

For their recordings of these works (2/98) DaCapo used a Danish orchestra and Welsh conductor (Arwel Hughes); here we have...

Reviewed in issue 4/1999

Bellini Norma

Callas's debut at Mexico City in the first performance of her Norma to have survived on records is every bit...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 5/2000

Gluck Italian Arias

This is something very much out of the ordinary. These eight arias‚ taken variously from Gluck’s early operas (that is‚...

Reviewed in issue 13/2001

Thomas Quasthoff - (A) Portrait

Quasthoff’s reputation has increased with each new disc‚ so it is a good idea of RCA’s to issue this composite...

Reviewed in issue 2/2002

Tippett Midsummer Marriage, etc.

Barshai recorded the Concerto for double string orchestra once before, over 20 years ago, with combined forces from Bath and...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 9/1985

Prokofiev (The) Gambler

Prokofiev’s second opera is his most extreme, in its musical language if not in its story-line. In Dostoyevsky’s short story...

Reviewed in issue 10/1999

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