Bruch Works for Violin & Orchestra

Israel Philharmonic Orchestra | Itzhak Perlman | Zubin Mehta

For anyone who already has a recording of the unavoidable Bruch G minor Concerto, Perlman's coupling of his two 'next-best'...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/1988

Decades: A Century of Song Vol 3

With Schubert dead and Schumann devoting himself almost exclusively to the piano, the 1830s might seem a relatively fallow, ‘in-between’...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: AW18

SCHUMANN 'Album für Die Frau' (Carolyn Sampson)

Carolyn Sampson | Joseph Middleton

With so much awareness afoot over repressive patriarchal cultures past and present, how can – and does – anyone record...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2021

MAYER Symphonies Nos 3 & 7 (de Vriend)

Jan Willem de Vriend | North German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra

‘The most prolific female composer of the 19th century’ – it’s an achievement of sorts, but Emilie Mayer (1812-83) deserves...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2023

Gade Complete Piano Trios

Parnassus Trio | Thomas Selditz

Gade’s F major Trio is far more than a worthy exercise by a provincial master. Apart from the fluency and...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 6/2011

Thomas/Gounod/Lalo String Quartets

Daniel Qt

This is one of the most interesting chamber programmes to come my way in many a month and the lustrous-sounding...

Reviewed in issue 12/1994

BRUCH String Quartets, Piano Quintet

Diogenes Quartet | Goldner Quartet | Piers Lane

When Max Bruch’s music was compared unfavourably to Brahms’s, he had his excuse ready: the pram in the hall. ‘I...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2016

Pletnev in Person

Mikhail Pletnev

It’s Mikhail Pletnev. So there is another view – wrought from an intensely personal response to phrasing and structure; and...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 01/2014

Rheinberger Complete Organ Works, Vol 1

Rudolf Innig

In the first half of this century Rheinberger’s music was very fashionable amongst British organists, but sadly it finds little...

Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 11/1999

Lang Lang - Live at Carnegie Hall

Guo-ren Lang | Lang Lang

Deutsche Grammophon continues to display an erratic recent track record when it comes to recording and promotig young, photogenic pianists....

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 5/2004