R. Strauss/Headington Violin Concertos

Jane Glover | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Xue Wei

ASV are to be congratulated for this far-sighted release of the violin concertos of Richard Strauss and Christopher Headington. If,...

Reviewed by mjameson in issue: 12/1991

SCHUBERT Symphonies Nos 8 & 9 (Blomstedt. Jacobs)

B'Rock | Herbert Blomstedt | Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra | René Jacobs

Here’s an exercise in comparisons, and not necessarily the ones you might expect. Herbert Blomstedt makes his DG debut at...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2022

Lowell Liebermann Plays Piano Music of Theodor Kirchner

Lowell Liebermann’s prowess at the keyboard usually takes a back seat to his prominence as a composer. He made up...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2024

Brahms Piano Trios

Borodin Trio

All piano trios are difficult to balance: Brahms's especially so, his piano writing tending to take on the dimensions of...

Reviewed in issue 5/1983

SCHUMANN Complete Violin Sonatas

Christian Tetzlaff | Lars Vogt

Anyone familiar with Christian Tetzlaff’s Gramophone Award-winning recording of Schumann’s piano trios (EMI, 7/11) will not be surprised to hear...

Reviewed in issue 01/2014

SCHUMANN String Quartets, Op 41 Nos 1-3 (Doric Quartet)

Doric String Quartet

Of all the indisputably great composers, Schumann has had to contend with more brickbats than most. Now we’ve finally scotched...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2011

TCHAIKOVKSY Symphonies Nos 4-6 (Nelsons)

Andris Nelsons | Baiba Skride | Håkan Hardenberger | Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra

The prime purpose of this box-set is undoubtedly to document Andris Nelsons’s accounts of Tchaikovsky’s last three (numbered) symphonies taped...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2021

Bizet: Solo piano works

M. Setrak

These two discs include every original work Bizet wrote for solo piano—even three very early juvenilia (only recently discovered in...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 9/1985

BIGHAM Staffa

Jean-Claude Picard | Royal Scottish National Orchestra

There’s a rhythmic trick at work in the first of Ned Bigham’s Archipelago Dances Set 1, a wily spacing of the...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 12/2017

Fatma Said: Lieder

Anneleen Lenaerts | Fatma Said | Huw Montague Rendall | Joseph Middleton | Malcolm Martineau | Quatuor Arod | Sabine Meyer | Walhalla zum Seidlwirt | Yonatan Cohen

Fatma Said might look out alone from the cover of her new album, ‘Lieder’, but as a quick look through...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2025