Search the Reviews Database

Bryn Terfel - Bad Boys

The baddies always are more fun; in opera and musical theatre they are that much larger than life, too. Small...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/2009

Mahler Symphony No 4

Bertini is by far the more persuasive of these new arrivals: his buoyant and open-faced Mahler Fourth exudes bright-eyed innocence...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 7/1991

Verdi Un ballo in maschera

It would be hard, if not impossible today, to assemble such a secure-voiced and accomplished cast as this for Ballo,...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1990

Monteverdi Motets

Venturesome and wide-ranging in its repertoire as this college choir is, it has not previously been heard on records in...

Reviewed in issue 11/1992

In the Streets and Theatres of London

The Musicians of Swanne Alley have been on to a good thing from the start. The Folger Consort and other...

Reviewed in issue 11/1989

R. Strauss/Wagner Lieder

Here is a discovery, perhaps the most promising Jugendlich-Dramatische soprano to burst on the scene since Studer. With a full,...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1994

Tippett Divertimento on Sellinger's Round; Ritual Dances

To mark the Tippett centenary EMI Classics adds these three reissues to the pair of discs already available: vocal music...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 6/2005

Verdi Otello

Anyone who thinks Toscanini, Karajan and Carlos Kleiber are the only conductors who have known how to conduct Verdi's penultimate...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1991

Unpublished Lieder & songs 1957-64

This is a slightly perplexing record, but one I have now played several times, with increasing pleasure. ‘Unpublished’ is a...

Reviewed in issue 1/2001

Mozart Don Giovanni

Somewhat muzzy orchestral sound aside, this long neglected set, dating from 1953, has a deal to offer. Max Rudolf’s view...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/2002

---

 

Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews

Gramophone Guides

---

---

---

---

---

---