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BRAHMS; SCHUMANN Lieder
Ann Murray | Benjamin Appl | Hester Dixon | John Mark Ainsley | Johnny Langridge | Malcolm Martineau
Schumann’s final songs, settings of poems attributed to Mary, Queen of Scots, were long routinely dismissed as the products of...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2015
Brahms; Schumann Piano Quintets
Uneven coupling from a young all-Flemish partnership. They’re at their best in the less emotionally demanding Schumann, Komen especially confident...
Reviewed by mquinn in issue: 10/1998
Brahms; Schumann Clarinet Sonatas
Alena Cherny | Fabio di Càsola
Fabio di Càsola has a fluency of line, a quick ear for detail and a feeling for Brahms’s long phrases...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 2/2007
Brahms Symphony No 3; Schumann Overture, Scherzo and Finale
London Symphony Orchestra | Neeme Järvi
We needed a good version of the Schumann work, since Marriner's performance on Capriccio/Target is somewhat featureless and lacking in...
Reviewed in issue 3/1989
Brahms; Schumann Piano Quintets
Artemis Quartet | Leif Ove Andsnes
Leif Ove Andsnes has an uncanny knack of revealing the inner truth of the music he plays without recourse to...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 13/2007
Brahms Handel Variations Op 24; Intermezzi Op 117.; Schumann Fantasie Op 17
This Brahms and Schumann recital shows John Lill at his very finest. Self-conscious shows of sophistication and virtuosity he leaves...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/2006
Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Shura Cherkassky,Vol 2
Listening to Shura Cherkassky and Leopold Ludwig perform the Tchaikovsky First Concerto is rather like watching the squire's mischievous son...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 2/2000
Schumann Symphony No 1; Brahms Symphony No 2
István Kertész | London Symphony Orchestra
Back in the 1960s the name István Kertész was for many of us inextricably associated with what at the time...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 7/2008
Brahms/Schumann Viola Sonatas
Lars Anders Tomter | Leif Ove Andsnes
I've always cherished the last piece of Schumann's Marchenbilder as a little gem. But more than once I've been guilty...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 11/1993
Brahms Symphony No. 3. Schumann Symphony No 4
Guido Cantelli | Philharmonia Orchestra
These performances have been reissued several times since the appearance of the original ten-inch 1950s mono LPs, but it was...
Reviewed in issue 6/1989
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