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Shostakovich Complete Cello Works

These sure-footed versions of the Shostakovich concertos seem a tad earthbound when set against Heinrich Schiff’s recently reissued coupling (Philips,...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 13/2006

Barber & Britten Songs

It is good to have this pairing of songs by Barber and Britten, which was recorded as long ago as...

Reviewed in issue 10/1989

Meditation

Here is a desert-island disc which is also a disc for the island of the deserted spirit. It is, or...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 1/2005

Thin Red Line Original Soundtrack

Writer-director Terrence Malick was once a Rhodes scholar at Oxford, a philosophy professor and a journalist for Life magazine. We...

Reviewed in issue 5/1999

Vivaldi Cantatas

Vivaldi’s secular chamber cantatas have attracted some recordings over the past decade or so, but by and large they are...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 7/2004

Karl Erb Lieder Album

Erb's career, voice and style closely resemble those of Peter Schreier today. Both started their professional life in the opera...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1994

Victor de Sabata Edition: Vol.1 - Wagner

Victor de Sabata (1892–1967) was universally admired as a great conductor, but his legacy of commercial recordings is fairly meagre....

Reviewed in issue 2/1990

Tubin Barbara von Tisenhusen

Eduard Tubin first tried his hand at opera in 1941 with Puhajarv (''Holy Lake''), and a little later, Libahunt (''Werewolf'')...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 4/1993

Bush Violin Concerto, Op 32

Alan Bush - pupil of John Ireland, Professor of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music for half a century...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 11/2002

Julia Varady

Julia Varady’s career was centred mostly in Germany, at the opera houses in Frankfurt, Munich and Berlin. She made her...

Reviewed by po'connor in issue: 11/2007

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