Iain Quinn - Tender Is The North

This must be one of the finest recordings of Coventry Cathedral’s glorious Harrison and Harrison organ since Graham Barber’s pioneering...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 7/2010

Dvorák String Quartets Nos 9 & 12

Bochmann Qt

Dvorak's D minor Quartet starts so beautifully that one wonders why one doesn't hear it more often. It doesn't quite...

Reviewed in issue 9/1986

Lachner Symphony No 8; Ball-Suite

Alfred Walter | Paul Robinson | Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Kosice

Paul Robinson and the Kosice State Philharmonic are loyal supporters of Lachner, now following their record of his Fifth Symphony...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 3/1995

CZERNY Organ Music

Iain Quinn

Poor Carl Czerny! Despite his pivotal position, being both a pupil of Beethoven and a teacher of Liszt, his reputation...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 04/2017

RUBINSTEIN Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 4

Alexander Paley | Igor Golovchin | Russian State Symphony Orchestra

No one in his lifetime doubted Anton Rubinstein’s brilliance as a pianist, though he always thought of himself as first...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 05/2013

STRAUSS Piano Quartet. Cello Sonata. Capriccio

Michal Kanka | Miguel Borges Coelho | Petr Holman | Prazák Quartet | Vladimir Fortin

Strauss’s Piano Quartet in C minor is not among his more celebrated early works, even though it won first prize...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/2011

GODARD Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2

Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra

With Vol 63 of Hyperion’s ‘Romantic Piano Concerto’ series we alight upon Benjamin Godard (1849 95), the French composer remembered...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 09/2014

ALBÉNIZ 7 Studies. Les Saisons. Suites. Danzas

Juan José Mudarra Gámiz | Miguel Baselga

Both of these albums will delight pundits and academics anxious to follow Albéniz’s early style before it blossomed into his...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/2014

Rubinstein Piano Sonatas 1 & 3

Leslie Howard

It is hard to understand why this music never found a place in the repertoire; the Third and Fourth Sonatas,...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 5/1990

Franck String Quartet; Piano Quintet

Cristina Ortiz | Fine Arts Quartet

This outstanding disc of two of Franck’s late masterpieces features the Fine Arts Quartet with Cristina Ortiz in the Piano...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/2010