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WAGNER Overtures and Preludes
Neeme Järvi | Royal Scottish National Orchestra
An ideal way of presenting Wagner’s overtures and preludes – in date order, from 1833/34 to 1868, showing the composer’s...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 11/2013
GADE Chamber Works Vol 3
Danish Quartet | Ensemble MidtVest
When we tot up the profit-and-loss account of Niels Gade’s bicentenary year in December, I fear it won’t be CPO’s...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 08/2017
MAYER Piano Concerto. Overtures (Tobias Koch)
Kölner Akademie | Michael Alexander Willens | Tobias Koch
The warm period sonorities of the Kölner Akademie – pure-toned strings and downy flutes – help to place Emilie Mayer...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2023
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 6 (Petrenko)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Kirill Petrenko
Pierre Boulez – no conductor of Tchaikovsky – used to give performances that rendered a pocket score redundant. There was...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2019
Reinecke Symphonies 2 & 3
Howard Shelley | Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
Born almost 10 years before Brahms‚ Carl Reinecke survived that friend and colleague by 13 years‚ continuing to compose into...
Reviewed in issue 8/2002
HAHN Le Rossignol éperdu
‘Le rossignol éperdu’ is to Hahn what Lieder ohne Worte is to Mendelssohn and Lyric Pieces to Grieg. It is...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2015
Michel Portal, Paul Meyer: Double
Michel Portal | Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie | Paul Meyer
‘Double’ clarinets could, I suppose, have been a bit of a procession of unremarkable and maybe overlong Classical and early...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: AW20
Chopin: Piano Works
This is unfailingly musical, warmly sympathetic Chopin playing, wholly free of obtrusive idiosyncrasies. Always you can rely on Livia Rev...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 11/1989
Liszt Piano Works, Vol.16
We all know of Ferdinand David as leader of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in its heyday under Mendelssohn who, incidentally,...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 9/1992
BOTTESINI Reverie
Knut Erik Sundquist | Nils Mortensen
Knut Erik Sundquist’s recital replicates the contents of a recording by the Viennese virtuoso Ludwig Streicher (Teldec – nla) made...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 08/2012
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