Schumann String Quartets 1-3

(The) Eroica Quartet | St Lawrence String Quartet

Schumann’s relief and joy on Clara’s return after her first extended concert tour since their recent marriage resulted in a...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/2001

Tchaikovsky Piano Works

James Lisney | Victoria Postnikova

Tchaikovsky wrote The Seasons for the monthly journal Nuvellist, whose editor had the bright idea of commissioning 12 pieces from...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 6/1992

Messiaen Organ Works, Vol 6

Rudolf Innig

This is Messiaen’s largest organ cycle, a triumphant summary of his totally personal compositional techniques and an imposing celebration of...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 5/1999

Tchaikovsky/Alyabiev Piano Trios

Borodin Trio

''Newly recorded fuller version'' it says on the Chandos jewel-case and booklet. That means that the Borodin Trio have now...

Reviewed in issue 10/1991

Sophie-Véronique Choplin plays the Organ of Saint-Sulpice, Paris

An interesting mixture of nineteenth-century German and twentieth-century French organ music persuasively performed on the 1862 Cavaille-Coll organ in St...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 13/1998

Bizet/Fauré Piano Works

Jean-Marc Luisada

This most enterprising recital commences Jean-Marc Luisada’s exclusive contract with RCA. Suavely and satisfyingly recorded in the Grand Hall of...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/1998

Virtuoso Guitar Transcriptions

Nicola Hall

If any guitarist in this country has faster fingers than Nicola Hall I have yet to hear him/her, and perhaps...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 5/1992

HAYDN; LIGETI; BRAHMS String Quartets

Dudok Quartet

Comparisons may be of academic interest for this Hungarian-themed album, but Ligeti’s first work of early maturity receives an outrageously...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2015

Brahms and his Contemporaries, Vol 3

Johannes Moser | Paul Rivinius

Hänssler Classic’s mini-series “Brahms and his Contemporaries” has been an interesting survey of those who orbited their admired composer –...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 8/2009

BERTIN Fausto (Rousset)

(Les) Talens Lyriques | Ante Jerkunica | Christoph Rousset | Diana Axentii | Flemish Radio Choir | Karina Gauvin | Karine Deshayes | Marie Gautrot | Nico Darmanin | Thibault de Damas d’Anlezy

When Fausto was first performed at the Théâtre-Italien in Paris in March 1831, there was much comment in the press,...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 02/2024