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D'Indy Symphony on a French Mountain Air; Saint-Saens Symphony No 2
Marek Janowski | Martin Helmchen | Suisse Romande Orchestra
Two works of ripe Romantic élan here frame a relatively early and seldom-performed symphony by Saint-Saëns, all of them played...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 12/2011
Ferguson; Gurney Piano Works
The four unpublished pieces by Ivor Gurney are student works that move from Schubert (‘Despair’) – a distinct whiff of...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2004
Ries Piano Concerto No 7
Christopher Hinterhuber | Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra | Uwe Grodd
Ferdinand Ries (1784- 1838), pupil, friend and biographer of Beethoven, made London his home from 1813 to 1824. The Piano...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 9/2009
NICODÉ Ein Liebesleben, and other works (Simon Callaghan)
Surely you might be forgiven for mistaking one of the pieces from Op 6 of Jean Louis Nicodé (1853-1919), the...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 08/2019
Amy Yang: Resonance
On paper, the idea of Bach’s Fourth Partita and Schumann’s Davidsbündlertänze bookending the recorded premiere of Caroline Shaw’s 14-minute Gustave...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2020
Yuri Bashmet Recital
Mikhail Muntain | Yuri Bashmet
It was the sheer beauty of Yuri Bashmet's tone that first caught my ear—now as sumptuous as a cello, now...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 12/1990
Brahms Piano Sonata in F minor; Schumann Fantasie in C
Writing acutely and evocatively in his accompanying essay about Wilhelm Kempff‚ Stephen Plaistow quotes Alfred Brendel. For Brendel‚ Kempff ‘when...
Reviewed in issue 3/2002
Schumann/Brahms Piano Works
We have too few recordings of solo recitals from Imogen Cooper, and this one is welcome, not least because it...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 5/1992
Brahms Flute Sonatas; Schumann Romances
Charles Abramovic | Jeffrey Khaner
I approached these transcriptions with some scepticism, for the late Op 120 Sonatas seem custom-made for the dark, velvety tone...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/2005
Brahms & Schumann String Quartets
Given the stature of these two composers, their string quartets are not well known, and I guess that for every...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 9/1993
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