FAURÉ The Complete Barcarolles

Charles Owen

If I was to find an apt description of Fauré’s art – its craft and complexity – it would be...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 09/2011

JS BACH Organ Works, Vol 1 (Peter Kofler)

Peter Kofler

The first five-disc set of Peter Kofler’s projected complete Bach organ works series claims to make use of an innovative...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 01/2020

Roman Sacred Songs and Psalms

The Sonata in A flat dates from 1895, the year in which Stenhammar composed his best-known piano pieces, the Three...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 8/1997

BEETHOVEN Septet Op 20 DVOŘÁK Czech Suite

European Chamber Players

A pleasant enough coupling, though not exactly helped by the somewhat cavernous acoustic of the Böserndorfer-Saal at the Vienna Mozarthaus....

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2013

STRAUSS Violin Concerto. Violin Sonata

Israel Chamber Orchestra | Martin Sieghart | Michael Korstick | Thomas Albertus Irnberger

Not long ago I was praising Richard Strauss’s early (1887) Violin Sonata, attractively played by Tasmin Little and Piers Lane,...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 02/2014

WEIGL Symphony No 1. Pictures and Tales (Bruns)

Jürgen Bruns | Rheinland-Pfalz State Philharmonic Orchestra

Born in 1881, Karl Weigl received lessons from Zemlinsky as a teenager, studied alongside Webern at the University of Vienna,...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 09/2019

Saint-Lubin Violin Works Vol. 1

Anastasia Khitruk | Elizaveta Kopelman

Who was Léon de Saint-Lubin (1805-50)? His Lucia fantasy was recorded by Jan Kubelík in 1902, but since then he...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 8/2009

Elgar Enigma Variations; Introduction & Allegro

Colin Davis | London Symphony Orchestra

In this latest issue in the LSO Live series Sir Colin Davis conducts a spacious account of the Enigma Variations...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/2007

Clarinet Virtuosi of the Past Hermstedt

Alastair Blayden | Anna Coleman | Elizabeth Ritchie | Jennifer Purvis | Matthew Souter | Victoria Soames

Considering the fact that the clarinet has been around for nearly three centuries and inspired Mozart and Brahms to write...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 3/1994

Rheinberger Complete Organ Works, Volume 2

Rudolf Innig

In November I gave a warm welcome to Vol 1 of this series, and I'm happy to report that Vol...

Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 2/2000