Double Concertos

Bamberg Symphony Orchestra | Eduard Brunner | Lothar Zagrosek | Maria Graf | Milan Turkovic | Tabea Zimmermann

Here is a curious musical sandwich, where a quite recent composition, written in a very up-to-date idiom, is flanked by...

Reviewed in issue 4/1990

Schumann String Quartet Nos 1 and 3

Zehetmair Quartet

Our received legacy of Schumann string quartet recordings goes back as far as the Flonzaley, Capet, Léner and Prague Quartets,...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 6/2003

Orff (A) Midsummer Night's Dream

Behind Carl Orff’s music for Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream lies the sordid tale of the Nazi banning of the...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 11/2011

SCHUMANN Manfred

Aurel Bereuter | Claudia Hübschmann | Dennis Laubenthal | Eva Bauchmüller | Fabrizio Ventura | Julia Stefanie Möller | Lisa Wedekind | Lukas Schmid | Münster Concert Choir | Münster Philharmonic Choir

‘Terrible night with dreams of death,’ noted the young Schumann in 1829 after reading Manfred. Nineteen years later, in a...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2016

Schumann Szenen aus Goethes Faust

Aldeburgh Festival Singers | Alfreda Hodgson | Benjamin Britten | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Elizabeth Harwood | English Chamber Orchestra | Felicity Palmer | Jennifer Vyvyan | Jenny Hill | John Elwes

Amidst a host of treasured Aldeburgh memories dating right back to the festival's inception, nothing in my mind glows more...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 7/1990

C & R SCHUMANN Piano Concertos (Beatrice Rana)

Beatrice Rana | Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Yannick Nézet-Séguin

Prodigy Clara Schumann (Wieck at the time) was 14 when she wrote the third movement of her Concerto, and 16...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 03/2023

Bach in Montecassino

Luca Guglielmi

Presenting Bach’s organ music in fresh pastures is no easy feat but the programming alchemy here is highly compelling. The...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 08/2015

Chadwick String Quartets 1 & 2

Portland Quartet

George Whitefield Chadwick (1854–1931) was a leading light in the second generation of Boston classicists. His opera, Judith, was given...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 10/1990

Hummel; Moscheles Cello Sonatas

Hamish Milne | Jirí Bárta

Hummel and Moscheles make an apt pair: each was a keyboard virtuoso who wrote prolifically. Yet where Hummel has been...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/2006

Liszt Piano Works, Vol. 6

Joseph Banowetz

It is difficult when faced by a recording like this, particularly if you’ve never heard the artist live, to assess...

Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 8/1998