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Haydn Die Jahreszeiten

Karajan's Seasons transfers to CD with digital remastering which makes its ebullience and robust rusticity all the more compelling. As...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 7/1988

Tudor Anthems

Alongside the high-octane professional choirs who have recorded so much sixteenth-century church music over the last decade, the Christ Church...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 2/1990

Beethoven Symphony No. 9

Roger Norrington's period instruments Ninth on EMI blazed a trail, exploring possibilities and setting precedents, that Christopher Hogwood drawing on...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/1989

Sarah Chang - Sweet Sorrow

This sort of compilation, I have to say, doesn’t appeal to me. To collect together music by similarity of mood...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 11/1999

Charpentier Music for One & Two Voices

Harmonia Mundi continue their pioneering Charpentier project with a recital by Concerto Vocale of predominantly small-scalre Latin motets. All of...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 6/1985

Dvorák Symphony No 8; Sibelius Symphony No 2

Surprisingly, given his formidable Sibelian credentials, Beecham’s studio recording of the Second Symphony (from 1946-47, listed above) falls some way...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 13/2004

Schumann Carnaval; Fantasiestücke; Papillons

This is Hamelin’s second Schumann recital for Hyperion. Once again, for the most part, there is a reassuring sense of...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 1/2006

Even Such is Time

The nine voices of Voces Sacrae display consummate musicianship, sensitivity and technical control. Judy Martin avoids any temptation to turn...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 11/2002

Margaret Price sings Romantic Songs

If a singer of the young Margaret Price's radiant gifts were to walk into a recording studio today, the microphones...

Reviewed in issue 11/1995

Menotti/Barber Orchestral Works

Barber and Menotti—long-term friends kindred spirits, master melodists: these charming, hummable, danceable and rarely heard scores make a happy union....

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 9/1990

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