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TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 1. The Tempest
Pablo Heras-Casado | St Luke's Orchestra
Victoria, Monteverdi, Carter, Boulez and a great deal in between: Pablo Heras-Casado is one of those conductors, not common in...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 02/2017
BRAHMS; SCHUMANN Violin Sonatas (Yuuko Shiokawa)
András Schiff | Yuuko Shiokawa
There’s a special feeling of intimacy and mutual understanding in Yuuko Shiokawa and András Schiff’s music-making – not surprising given...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2025
BRUCH Lieder (Rafael Fingerlos)
Rafael Fingerlos | Sascha El Mouissi
For all of his vast output of concertos, symphonies and oratorios, Max Bruch’s reputation stubbornly refuses to expand much beyond...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2021
RAFF Symphony No 2
Neeme Järvi | Suisse Romande Orchestra
I had to smile when, at around 12'09" into the Orchestral Prelude to The Tempest of 1879, I noted how...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2013
Schumann Cello Works
Dénes Várjon | Steven Isserlis
It’s more than a decade since Steven Isserlis’s RCA disc of Schumann, that time around coupling the Concerto with his...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 5/2009
SCHUMANN Symphony Nos 1 & 2 (Alsop. Re-orch. Mahler)
Marin Alsop | ORF Vienna Symphony Orchestra
A piece of music (or indeed any work of art) exists on two temporal planes: as an artefact of its...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2022
Goetz Vocal & Orchestral Works
Goetz’s music has never found much of a following in this country, but the present record includes at least one...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 8/1996
Schumann Piano Concerto; Symphony No 4
Schumann’s year-long tenure teaching at the Leipzig Conservatory, a post that Mendelssohn created for him, was not a happy experience....
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 7/2007
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
By happy coincidence, these two new versions of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto appear with the same couplings. But where the...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/2007
LALO Piano Trios
The spirits of both Mendelssohn and Schumann haunt Edouard Lalo’s three piano trios. In the third of them there is...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 01/2016
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