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Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2
Cyprien Katsaris | Eliahu Inbal | Philharmonia Orchestra
Brahms's Second is very much a symphonic concerto which can be dominated in performance either by the conductor or the...
Reviewed in issue 8/1990
Schumann Lieder
Daniel Levy | Geoffrey Parsons | Olaf Bär | Wolfgang Holzmair
The vogue for singing Schumann continues apace with these two very attractive discs. For those who want to make a...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1991
Schumann Piano Concerto; Symphony No. 2
Andreas Staier | Champs-Élysées Orchestra, Paris | Philippe Herreweghe
Listening to Andreas Staier’s stylishly articulated account of the Schumann Piano Concerto reminded me that Liszt had originally refused to...
Reviewed in issue 9/1996
Grieg & Schumann Piano Concertos
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra | Colin Davis | Murray Perahia
From the article he wrote for Gramophone in April 1984 (page 1157), we know that for Alfred Brendel a concert...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 5/1989
Nineteenth Century Orchestral Works
Berlin Symphony Orchestra | Claus Peter Flor
After Claus Peter Flor's outstanding RCA records of Mendelssohn overtures ((CD) RD87905, 1/89) and the incidental music for A Midsummer...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/1990
Le Dolce Sirene
The Kansas City-based Bach Aria Soloists make their recording debut on Reference Recordings with a lovely album of Monteverdi, Bach,...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 03/2023
STERNDALE BENNETT Piano Concertos Nos 1-3
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra | Howard Shelley
These three concertos were composed in the early 1830s, while Bennett was still a teenager and a student at the...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2018
The Enlightenment Influence
Organists devising a chronological programme invariably come unstuck in the period between Bach and Mendelssohn. The orchestral symphony, the string...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 07/2017
Macfarren Symphonies Nos 4 & 7
Queensland Philharmonic Orchestra | Werner Andreas Albert
How odd that a German conductor and record company and an Australian orchestra should be unearthing a British composer of...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 2/1999
GOUNOD Symphonies Nos 1 & 2 (Tortelier)
Iceland Symphony Orchestra | Yan Pascal Tortelier
‘Write me symphonies like Beethoven’s and I’ll play them!’ Jules Pasdeloup told Charles Gounod. Nowadays, we associate the French composer...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2019
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