RIDDERSTOLPE Untold Tales

Anna Paradiso | Kristina Hammarström

Not even the Swedish duo of Kristina Hammarström and Anna Paradiso had heard of Caroline Ridderstolpe (1793-1878) until the latter...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 11/2024

Liszt Piano Works

Valerie Tyron

Valerie Tryon’s generous ‘Liszt Odyssey’ mirrors both her genial nature and her dedication to the idea of music as a...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 1/2005

Hartmann, E Songs

Less well known than his father Johann Peter Emilius, Emil Hartmann (1836-98) was nevertheless a respected figure in 19th-century Denmark....

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 5/2011

Stähle & Dvorák Piano Quartets

Mozart Piano Quartet

Hugo Stahle was one of the most promising of his generation of composers, widely admired for the fluency and charm...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1989

ALBÉNIZ Piano Concerto No 1. Suite española

Alicia de Larrocha | BBC Philharmonic Orchestra | Carlos Bonell | Charles Dutoit | Juanjo Mena | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Martin Roscoe | Montreal Symphony Orchestra | Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos

For Oliver Messiaen, Albéniz was ‘parmi les étoiles’, and it is easy to see the attraction of music blazing with...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 06/2016

Leonard Pennario: The Complete RCA Album Collection

The pianist Leonard Pennario has never been ranked with the all-time greats. He died in 2008 but never achieved the...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2019

Fauré Piano Works, Vol. 5

Paul Crossley

This is the fifth and final volume of Paul Crossley's complete recording of Faure's solo-piano music; it makes a richly...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 2/1988

Record of Singing, Volume 3

Anonymous Organists(s) | Anonymous Pianist(s) | (Anonymous) Ensemble | (Anonymous) Orchestra | (Arnold) Schoenberg Choir | (Mme) Charles Cahier | A.V Slutzky | Academy of Ancient Music | Ada Nordenova | Ada Sari

To recapitulate: 'The Record of Singing', the most exciting project of its kind ever devised and carried out, undertook to...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/2000

Gershwin; Ravel Piano Concertos. Stravinsky Capriccio

Ian Parker | London Symphony Orchestra | Michael Francis

A Ravel and Gershwin coupling is now as ubiquitous as a Grieg and Schumann. The Stravinsky, though, is a comparative...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 1/2011

Bruckner Symphonie in F Minor

Berlin Deutsches Symphony Orchestra | Vladimir Ashkenazy

Calling Bruckner’s Study Symphony in F minor ‘No. 00’ has always struck me as being both silly and cruel. It...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 5/1999