MASSENET Thaïs (Davis)

Andrea Ludwig | Andrew Davis | Andrew Staples | Emilia Boteva | Erin Wall | Joshua Hopkins | Liv Redpath | Nathan Berg | Neil Aronoff | Stacey Tappan

Made in tandem with concert performances in Toronto last November, Andrew Davis’s recording of Massenet’s great parable about sex and...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2020

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Op 2 (Roberto Prosseda)

Roberto Prosseda

The interests of Italian pianist Roberto Prosseda are wide-ranging and his energies seemingly endless. Earlier in his career he discovered...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2025

GRIEG String Quartet, Op 27 BRAHMS Clarinet Quintet, Op 115

Hagen Quartet

It would be hard to imagine a finer version of the sadly neglected Grieg Quartet, the only one he completed....

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 08/2012

Tchaikovsky & Sibelius Violin Concertos

Boston Symphony Orchestra | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Nigel Kennedy | Okko Kamu | Seiji Ozawa | Viktoria Mullova

Listening to the Mullova again confirms my earlier impression. The Sibelius is magnificent: stern, vigorous and entirely free from the...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 1/1987

MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition TCHAIKOVSKY Swan Lake

Gustavo Dudamel | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Pictures at an exhibition grace the cover of this Pictures at an Exhibition, the result of a collaboration between Gustavo...

Reviewed by David Allen in issue: 02/2017

Brahms/Dvorák Piano Trios

Rembrandt Trio

The pianist, Valerie Tryon, was of course well-known to English audiences before her emigration in 1971 to Canada, where she...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 6/1992

Bruch/Mozart Trios for Clarinet, Viola and Piano

Josef Hála | Josef Suk | Ludmila Peterková

Bruch is best remembered for his violin concertos and a few instrumental pieces, while much of his other music has...

Reviewed in issue 2/1997

GOETZ Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2

Davide Cabassi | Kimbo Ishii | Magdeburg Philharmonic Orchestra

Hermann Goetz (1840 76) enjoyed a tragically brief, Mozartian lifespan. Though his music was quickly forgotten after his death, it...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2016

Liturgical Settings

With this fourth volume (previous ones were reviewed in 6/94, 9/95 and 11/96), the Nieuw Sinfonietta Amsterdam complete their cycle...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1997

BEETHOVEN; SAINT-SAËNS; SCHUMANN 'Symphonies Vol 2' (Tessa Uys, Ben Schoeman)

Ben Schoeman | Tessa Uys

Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony arranged for piano duet by Xaver Scharwenka (1850-1924) is a premiere recording. When I welcomed Vol 1...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2022