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Tchaikovsky Piano Works
Mikhail Pletnev’s persuasive 1986 recording of Tchaikovsky’s 18 Morceaux for Melodiya (12/89 – nla) was unfortunately hampered by strident sound...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 7/2005
Pacius (Die) Loreley
More than a curiosity and less than a masterpiece, Fredrik Pacius’s Loreley never established itself in the 19th-century repertoire, and...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/2004
Goldmark Orchestral Music
Michael Halász | Rhenish Philharmonic Orchestra
Goldmark's second Symphony is a work of his maturity (he was in his late fifties when he wrote it, in...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 8/1987
Avec Esprit: Gouvy, Mélan-Guéroult, Saint-Saens, Ysaye
Before I begin, I must declare an interest: I am a fully paid-up member of the Tal & Groethuysen fan...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2023
An Invitation at the Schumanns'
Jorge González Buajasan | Samuel Hasselhorn | Trio Dichter
Here’s a neat concept for an album; and unlike many others, it doesn’t over-determine an understanding of the music. Instead...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: AW23
Tchaikovsky/Chausson Works for Violin & Orchestra
London Philharmonic Orchestra | Nigel Kennedy | Okko Kamu
Nigel Kennedy's second concerto record for the EMI Eminence label, like is Gramophone Award-winning version of the Elgar (EMX412058-1, 12/84;...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/1986
SCHUMANN Scenes from Goethe's Faust
Since Benjamin Britten broke a lance for it in 1973, Scenes from Goethe’s Faust has not suffered from the choral-society...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2014
Music for Wind and Strings
Gervase de Peyer | Melos Ensemble
These three performances by the Melos Ensemble have assumed something of a classic status. The sound is remarkably good and...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1996
Fasch Cantatas
Gleaned from recording sessions spanning six years between 1995 and 2001, the work of Johann Friederich Fasch (1688-1758) represents the...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2002
Strasfogel Piano Works
Kolja Lessing | Martin A. Bruns
A real and important discovery. The case of Ignace Strasfogel (1909-94) is very similar to that of Berthold Goldschmidt; indeed...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 3/1998
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