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Mozart Le Nozze di Figaro

The catalogue of Figaro recordings is a long one, and the cast lists are full of famous names. In this...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 8/1994

Music from the New York Stage, Vol. 2: 1908 1913

These 12 CDs are a monument to the enterprise of collector/producer Jack Raymond, who has gathered what is claimed to...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 5/1994

Poulenc Mélodies

To the remarkable plenitude of good recordings of Poulenc's songs already in the catalogue must now be added the present...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 3/1987

Weber Piano Works

It is disappointing to find a French pianist playing these works with so little of the French wit, brilliance and...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 4/1994

R. Strauss Elektra

When I reviewed the most recent version of Elektra in July last year I singled out for special praise the...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1997

Dufay O gemma lux

Dufay’s isorhythmic motets are among his most intriguing and outgoing works. They bristle with musical complexities and astonishing invention; they...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 11/2000

Killmayer Hölderlin Lieder

The German composer Wilhelm Killmayer (b. 1927) set some 43 of Holderlin's poems between 1982 and 1991. All come from...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 9/1992

Rimsky-Korsakov Snow Maiden

Much as Rimsky-Korsakov admired his own Snow Maiden – almost as much as posterity has – he saw that it...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 1/1997

Raff Orchestral Works

Another pair of discs in the ongoing Raff series from the composer's Swiss compatriot, Urs Schneider. Both No. 4 (1871)...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 2/1995

Verdi & Borodin String Quartets

The attractive new record is the product of the little festival run by Salvatore Accardo every spring in Naples. Here...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1989

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