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TCHIAKOVSKY; ARENSKY Piano Trios
Tchaikovsky’s Piano Trio set the example for Russian composers, perhaps with memories of Glinka’s Trio pathétique, of the medium as...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 02/2014
Saint-Saëns: Works for violin and orchestra
Arthur Grumiaux | Lamoureux Concerts Orchestra | Manuel Rosenthal
The choice between the three versions of this concerto now available on CD is not easily resolved. For a start,...
Reviewed in issue 2/1987
Schumann String Quartets
Gringolts Quartet | Peter Laul
Mere weeks after the Doric’s Op 41 comes another new set of Schumann’s miraculous quartets, this time coupled with the...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 1/2012
SCHUMANN Der Rose Pilgerfahrt. Requiem
With this pairing, Christoph Spering continues his exploration of some of the byways of the choral and vocal repertoire. Schumann’s...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2013
SCHUMANN Dichterliebe WAGNER Wesendonck Lieder (Prégardien)
It’s been 25 years since Christoph Prégardien and Andreas Staier presented Dichterliebe as part of an album dedicated to Heine...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 01/2020
RACHMANINOV Preludes and Transcriptions
This disc, devoted to Rachmaninov, remembers Colin Horsley, a pianist of the utmost distinction. A New Zealander by birth, he...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 04/2014
Schumann Chamber Works
Jan Panenka | Panocha Quartet | Smetana Qt
Although it has a slow movement as melting as any of the Clara-inspired love-songs and a Scherzo as mercurial as...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 10/1991
Schumann Complete Piano Works Vol 2
Finghin Collins's first volume in Claves's complete cycle of Schumann's piano music (A/06) may be a hard act to follow...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 3/2007
Schumann Symphonies 1 & 3
Berlin Staatskapelle | Otmar Suitner
The main interest of this Suitner CD is that it offers us (for the first time on record, and probably...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 8/1987
Tchaikovsky/Sibelius Violin Concertos
Eugene Ormandy | Itzhak Perlman | Philadelphia Orchestra
Compared with many Philadelphia recordings of the late seventies this one is warm and natural, with Perlman not so closely...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/1985
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