Book Reviews
Fredman:The Drama of Opera
Coffin's Sound of Singing
Maddalena Lombardini Sirmen
Maconie:The Second Sense
Luca Marenzio
Songs of Joaquim Rodrigo
Cambridge Companion to Grand Opera
Changing Tunes:Use of pre-existing music in Films
The Harmonious Music of John Jenkins
Music Making in the North East
Erik Chisholm:The Operas of Janacek
CD Reviews
Handel:Arias:Bostridge
Rossini:La Donna del Lago
Dufay:Mass of St. Antony of Padua
Parsons:Great Service:Naxos
Glass:Another Look at Harmony
Transcriptions:Versailles Guitar Quartet
Prelude, Fnugg and Riffs:Baadsvik
Callas:Puccini Heroines
Goss:Frozen Music
February 2008
De Grandval:Oboe concertos
Chant for Easter
Fusz:Songs
Encounters with Schumann
David Ashley White:Choral Music
Lundgren:Magnm Mysterium
January 2008
Maria Bayo Handel recital
Emma Kirkby Vivaldi arias
Gombert:Motets
Purcell:Songs:Lesne
Allegri:Miserere:A Sei Voci
Penderecki:Te Deum
Pierne:Orchestral works
Handel:Il Trionfo del Tempo
Chant for Pentecost
December 2008
Rheinberger:Mass
Berlioz:Te Deum
Paderewski:Songs
November 2007
Cesare Siepi
Handel:Serse (excerpts)
Organ Recital
Chinese Jesuit Mass
October 2007
Bruckner:Masses
Siegfried Wagner:Der Kobbold
Ockeghem, Lassus:Requiem
Callas Recital
Sefan Wolpe:Songs
Ophecleide recital
Kuhlau:Flute Trios
Travels with my Lute
September 2007
Bach:Oboe Concertos
Vivaldi:Guitar Concertos
Bach:Motets
Mozart:Coronation Mass:Neumann
Love Letters
August 2007
Kontraste
Buxtehude:Choral Music vol 2
Vivaldi:L'Estro Harmonico
Rameau:Cantatas
Hartke: The Greater Good
July 2007
Verdi:Il trovatore
Handel:Agrippina
Holst arrangements
Szyzmanowski Songs
Georg Schumann:Choral Music
June 2007
Buxtehude Oratorio
Ferneyhough:Choral Music
Naxos:Jewish operas vol 2
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Rossini:Ciro in Babilonia
Bach cantatas
Puccini duets
May 2007
Bach:St. Matthew Passion:Naxos
Wagner, Beecham and Flagstad
Handel & Smith:Tobit:Naxos
Judith Bingham choral works
Handel:Fernando
Handel:Floridante
April 2007
Petitgirard:Orchestral Music:Naxos
Handel:Cantatas
Petitgirard:Orchestral works
Schumann Choral Music
Tippett:Choral Music
Lotti:Vesper Psalms
Goss:Garden of Cosmic Speculation
March 2007
Ferrandini: Cantate per la Passione
Mayr:Cantatas
Ciardi:Flute Concertos
Andrea Gabrieli:Missa Pater Peccavi:His Majestys Sackbutts and Cornetts
De La Rue:Requiem
St. Paul's Trebles
February 2007
Catherine Bott recital
Anne Sophie von Otter recital
Ensemble Armarcord
Cho Liang Lin:Vivaldi-4 Seasons
Arvo Part:Choral Music
Sacchini:Oedipe a Colonne
Nicholas Maw:Choral Music
January 2007
Pergolesi:Stabat Mater:Europa Galante
Danzas Tuba
Parabolically Bach
Dowland:Lute Music, vol 2:Naxos
Harris:Anthems:Naxos
Monteverdi:Combattimento:Haim
Down a River of Time
Cavalli:Apollo:Naxos
December 2006
Handel:Jephtha
Handel:Saul
Vivaldi:La Serenissima
Palestrina:Missa Tu Es Petrus
November 2006
Romanus Weichlein:Masses
Handel:Belshazzar
Brahms:Deutsches Requiem
Christmas Vespers from Westminster Cathedral
Judith Zaimont:Sacred Music:Naxos
Brahms:Deutsches Requiem
Vivica Genaux recital
October 2006
John Jenkins:Fantasias:Consort of Musick
Monteverdi:5th Book of Madrigals:Naxos
Alliage Quartet transcriptions
Music in the Age of Rubens
September 2006
Pergolesi:Stabat Mater:Naxos
Guerrero:Missa Surge Propera:Sydney Chamber Choir
Healey Willan:Sacred Music
Palestrina:Canticum Canticorum
Handel:Rinaldo (excerpts)
Boccherini:Stabat Mater
Durufle:Requiem
August 2006
Berlioz:Damnation de Faust:Naxos
Palestrina:Masses:Tallis Scholars
Vivaldi Sacred Music Vol 2:Naxos
Avison Concertos
Meyerbeer:Semiramide:Naxos
Handel:Rinaldo:Naxos
Maxwell Davies Portrait:Naxos
July 2006
Tavener:Lament for Jerusalem:Summerley
Handel:Concerti Grossi:George Malcolm
Adam de la Halle:Le Jeu de Robin et de Marion:Tonus Peregrinus
Alagna Berlioz Recital
Handel:Recorder Sonatas
Roberto Alagna French Operatic Arias
Byrd:Consort Songs:Emma Kirkby, Fretwork
Mendelssohn Choral Music:Trinity College
June 2006
Foreign Insult:La Ricordanza
Handel/Mozart:Messiah:Mackerras
Puccini:Il Tabarro
Handel:Arianna
Mendelssohn Sacred Music:St. John's College Choir, Cambridge
Lehar:Operetta excerpts in French:Naxos
Clemens non Papa
Handel:Organ Concerti:Koopman
May 2006
Jenkins:6-Part consorts:Phantasm
Handel Arias:Lydia Vierlinger
Tallis Motets:Rodolfus Choir
Tito Schipa edition, volume 2
Dan Welcher:Haleakala:Naxos
Handel:Messiah:English Concert
Monteverdi:Orfeo:Pinchgut Opera
Weir:Consolations of Scholarship and other pieces
Anerio:Requiem:Westminster Cathedral Choir
April 2006
Handel: Water Music: Naxos
Weigl:Die Schweizer Familie
Siegfried Wagner:Sonnenflammen
Regina Coeli:Corpus Christi College Choir
Choral music by Carl Orff
A Garland of the Elizabethan
March 2006
Verdi Songs:Dennis O'Neill
Gombert:Choral Music:Naxos
Carissimi:Lamento:Elisabeth Speiser
Music from Nelson's Funeral
Music setting Women poets
David Stanhope Recital
February 2006
Water Settings
Mozart:Requiem:Naxos
Plainchant Requiem Mass
Akathistos Fragments
Dunstable:Sweet Harmony:Tonus Pelegrinus
Clytus Gottwald:Choral Arrangements
Jack Gottlieb
January 2006
Elgar in his Temple
Italian Dramatic Lament
Tchaikovsky:Eugene Onegin
Handel:Concerti Grossi:Hogwood/Haydn and Handel Society
Tippett:Songs:John Mark Ainsely
December 2005
Callas Traviata
Travellin' Light - American Light Music
Glass Sky
Menuhin playing Mendelssohn and Bruch
Choral music by Bo Holten
Wagner:Gotterdammerung:Beecham
November 2005
Vivaldi Sacred Music:Hyperion
Thomas Hampson Recital
Cantor Simon Spiro:Naxos Milken Archive
Bartok:Bluebeard's Castle
Handel:Cantatas:Emma Kirkby
October 2005
Music by Jachet and Willaert
Virtuoso Timpani concertos
Sunleif Rasmussen:Symphony No. 1:Danish National Symphony Orchestra
Handel:Rodelinda:Glyndebourne Festival DVD
Georgian Journey
Emma Bell, Handel Arias
September 2005
Grieg:Peer Gynt
Gregorian Feast:Pro Cantione Antiqua
Kalib:Day of Rest:Vienna Boys Choir
Tallis:Spem in Alium:Oxford Camerata/Summerly
The First S'Lilhot
Concertos by Walton, Casadesus and Berlioz performed by William Primrose
August 2005
Gavin Byars:Oi Me Lasso
Spirito Latino:Daniel Gauthier, Saxophone
Artur Schnabel- Beethoven vol 10: Naxos
Stephen Hartke:Tituli:Hilliard Ensemble
Mantovani by Special Request, Volume 2
June/July 2005
Cantorial Concert Masterpieces:Cantor Benzion Miller:Naxos Milken Archive
Mayr:Sisara
William Byrd:Anthems:Hereford Cathedral Choir
Life Is Beautiful:Australian Compilation disc
Immortal Fire:Girl Choristers and Lay Clerks of Winchester Cathedral:Griffin
Kalman:Die Ziegeunerprimas
Telemann:Ein Feste Burg:Carus
Swiss German Folk Songs
Barque Oboe Concertos
Handel:L'Allegro:Naxos
Baroque Duets
May 2005
Gluck:Orphee:Fouchecourt/Ryan Brown
McCormack Edition Volume 2:Naxos
Orff:Prometheus
Discover the Music of the Baroque:Naxos
Liszt:Piano Concerto:Berman
Carissimi:Jephte, Jonae:Naxos
April 2005
Michael Haydn:Requiem:King's Consort
Bellini:Norma: Callas
Songs of the Soul
Donizetti:Lucia di Lamermoor (excerpts):Bonynge, Gruberova
Sammartini:Il Pianto degli Angeli della Pace:NAXOS
Charpentier:Lecons de Tenebres:Lesne
Cavalli:Operatic Excerpts:Mediterranea Concento
March 2005
Honegger: Les Miserables
Gluck:Iphigenie en Aulis (excerpts):Gardiner
Handel:Messiah:Stockholm Cathedral Choir
Donizetti:Lucia di Lammermoor:Callas
Von Schillings:Mona Lisa
Lawrence Tibbett recital
Weinberger:Schwanda the Bagpiper:Wexford Festival Opera
Couperin:Lecons de Tenebre:Theatre of Early Music
Una Voce poco fa:Alliage Saxophone Quartet
February 2005
Handel:Organ Concertos:Brilliant
Scarlatti:Cecilian Vespers
Melba, American Recordings VOlume 1: Naxos
Charpentier sacred works:Concert Spirituel/Niquet: Glossa
January 2005
Handel Cantatas
Rossini:Italiana in Algeri:Dresden State Opera/Bertini
Handel:Athalia
D'Arcy Reynolds:The Past Keeps Changing
Scarlatti:Sonatas Volume 6
CD Reviews
December 2004
Juan Diego Florez recital
Complete Caruso Recordings (RCA)
Reinthaler:Jephta und seine Tochter
Laurent Petitgirard: Joseph Merrick, The Elephant Man
November 2004
Bach:Passions:Kings College Cambridge
Titto Gobbi Recital:Regis Records
Rameau:Hippolyte et Aricie (suite):La Petite Bande/Kuijken
Handel:Lotario:Complesso Barocco/Curtis
October 2004
Galuppi:La Diavolessa:Lauten Compagney
Richard Tauber:Operetta
Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Paris Opera DVD
Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro (in English)
Vivaldi:Sacred Music 1:Aradia Ensemble
September 2004
Wagner:Siegried(excerpts)
Monteverdi:Madrigals
Anderson:Swales and Angels
Mozart, Haydn:Sacred Aria:Annick Massis
Handel:The Ways of Zion do Mourn; Te Deum
Lassus:Missa surge propera; Cardinalls Musick
Charpentier:Funeral Music for Queen Maria Theresa
Clemens non Papa: Missa Ecce Quam Bonum: The Brabant Ensemble
Marcello Giordani Recital
July 2004
Vivaldi:Juditha Triumphans
Regine Crespin chante L'Opera francais
Tchaikovsky: The Enchantress
Monteverdi:Orfeo
Mozart:Complete Concert Arias and Songs
Gregorian Chant:Kunigonde:Schola Bamberg
Rhodes:Mountain View
Gluck:Orfeo (excerpts)
Rhodes:Visions of Remembrance
Donizetti:L'Elisir D'Amore (excerpts)
Monteverdi:Orfeo:Le Concert d'Astree, Haim
June 2004
Charpentier:Choral works
Dove: Flight
De Winter:Maometto
Gluck:Iphigenie en Tauride
May 2004
Rossini Overtures
Callas
Mendelssohn: Elijah, St. Paul
April 2004
Caruso - A life in Words and Music
Patrick Hawes:Blue in Blue
Derek Strahan:Rose of the Bay
A Tre: Music for Three Guitars
Robert Allworth:Visions of Mary Immaculate
Robert Allworth:Sanctus
The Convict Harpischordist
Richard Strauss:Der Liebe der Danae
March 2004
Ascension
Bizet:Carmen
Cavalli:Statira, Principessa di Persia
Chopin:Piano Concertos
Janacek:Glagolitic Mass, Taras Bulba
Mozart:Complete Sacred Music
Rossini:Petite Messe Solonelle
Evegny Kissin in Concert
Bach Arias and Duets
Scheidemann organ works, Vol 4
February 2004
Beatles arrangements
Charpentier:Te Deum
Handel:Cantatas (Kirkby)
Keiser:Cantatas
Schubert:Complete Masses
The Thistle and the Rose
Vinogradov sings Arias, Duets and Songs
January 2004
Amours, Zephyrs et Sirenes
Kuhlau,Schubert:Music for Flute and Piano
Offenbach:Orfee aux Enfers
Romantic Rarities for Oboe and Harp
Schubert:Symphonies 1,2,8
Schumann:Piano music
Verdi, Boito, Bellini
Vivaldi:Musica Sacra, vol 4
Schutz Symphoniae Sacrae, Vol 1
December 2003
Bach:Mass in B Minor
Handel:Complete Chamber Music
Late Gothic and Renaissance masterpieces
Raphael, Music of his time
Schubert:Goethe Lieder vol. 2
November 2003
Deep Purple
Giordano:Andrea Chenier
Handel:Coronation Anthems
Handel:Faramondo
Handel:Fireworks & Water Music
Handel:German Arias
Handel:Organ Concertos
Lennox Berkeley:Choral Music
Lully, Delalande
Schubert Transcriptions
Siegfried Wagner:Die Heilige Linde
Tchaikovsky:Manfred
October 2003
Bach:Brandenburg Concertos
Breton:La Verbena de la Paloma
Gounod:Romeo and Juliet
Handel:Beshazzar
Handel:Messiah
September 2003
Goudimel,Sweelinck
Handel:Acis and Galatea
Handel:Concerti Grossi Op. 3
Handel:Imeneo
In Dulci Jubilo
Spohr:String Quintets
Stradella:San Giovanni Battista
Vivaldi:Gloria
Wagner:Scenes from Siegfried and Lohengrin
July 2003
Bruckner:Masses
Handel:Concerti Grossi
Handel:Jephtha
Handel:Judas Maccabeus
Janez Lotric
Lortzing:Die Himmelfahrt Jesu Christi
Music for St. Marks
Telemann:Oboe Concertos
The Chants of Christmas
Wagner:Die Meistersinger
June 2003
Bach:St. Luke Passion
Bach:St. Mark Passion
Bach:St. Matthew Passion
British Music Sampler
Charpentier:Louise
Gregorian Chant
Handel:Solomon
Motet masters of the renaissance
Mozart: Idomeneo
Silver:Piano Concerto
Tallis:Spem in Alium
Telemann:Pasion Oratorio
The Beloved Son
Vivaldi:Complete Oboe Concertos
Vivaldi:Four Seasons
May 2003
Danzi:Flute Concertos
Handel:Brockes Passion
Offenbach:Tales of Hoffmann
Rameau:Zoroastre
April 2003
A Tierra Ajenas
Bizet:Carmen
Chaliapin, A Vocal Portrait
Grandi:Sacred Music
Handel:Water Music
Handel:Water Music
Haydn:Fortepiano trios
Il Pastor Fido
Junca:Mass in A Major
Lidholm:Orchestral Works
Locklair:Orchestral Music
Love Divine:Wesleyan Music
Mendelssohn:String Symphonies
Mozart:Complete Serenades and Divertimenti
Mozart:Oratorios
Musica Gregoriana Noel
Myers:God's Trombones
Ponchielli: La Gioconda
Poulenc Chamber Music
Renata Tebaldi
Rheinberger, Near:Masses
Russian Orthodox Christmas
Sigbjornsson:Skalholt Mass
Telemann:St. Matthew Passion
The Chants of Easter
The Coming of Christ
March 2003
Biber, MuffatLSonatas
Ginastera:Harp Concerto
Introduction to Schubert's Trout Quintet
Lidholm:Orchestral works
Massenet:Werther
Mozart:La Clemenza di Tito
Puccini:Turandot
Riga Mass
Verdi:Rigoletto
February 2003
An Eternal Harmony:The Sixteen
Haydn:Scots Songs
Janacek:Jenufa
Telemann:Recorder Solos and Sonatas
January 2003
Bach:Christmas Oratorio
Handel:Water Music
Mayr:La Passione
Mozart:Ascanio in Alba, Zaide
December 2002
Rossini:Bassoon Concerto
Tranquillity
November 2002
Delalande
Handel:Arias
Haydn:Seven Last Words
Mozart:Don Giovanni
Schubert:Lazarus
Telemann:Cantatas