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Franck Piano Trios, Vol 2
Franck’s devoted disciple Vincent d’Indy, writing of these teenage student works, rounded on critics who considered that his master’s art...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 13/1999
Mertz Bardenklänge, Op 13
Johan Kaspar Mertz was born in Pressburg (now Bratislava) in 1806. It is not known who taught him to play‚...
Reviewed in issue 13/2002
Britten String Quartet Nos 2 and 3; Three Divertimenti
Selection to BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists has clearly made the Elias Quartet a group to watch. As its...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 6/2010
Korngold in Vienna
Austrian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Of many Korngold CDs (according to information received from the Korngold Society in Hamburg, there are now over 40), this...
Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 12/2000
R. Strauss Don Quixote
Leonard Rubens | Paul Tortelier | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Thomas Beecham
Strauss asked his interpreters to play Salome and Elektra as if they were by Mendelssohn, Beecham, like Clemens Krauss, was...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 9/1989
Hol Symphonies 1 & 3
(The) Hague Residentie Orchestra | Matthias Bamert
A respected figure in his native Netherlands, Richard Hol (or Rijk Holle) was known in his lifetime (1825-1904) largely as...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 5/2000
Hahn Chamber Works
Charles Sewart | Philip de Groote | Stephen Coombs | Yuko Inoue
Calling the judgement of history into question can be stimulating, entertaining, and even useful in the longer term – witness...
Reviewed by rnichols in issue: 5/2004
Beethoven Mass in C
Corboz, who has conducted so many enjoyable performances, tends to be unlucky in his recordings; either somebody else comes out...
Reviewed in issue 7/1990
LUTZ Stabat Mater
Copenhagen Chamber Choir CAMERATA | Martin Nagashima Toft
Bruckner, Poulenc, Villette, Elgar, Perotin, Mendelssohn: none of these composers features on this recording but all are present in the...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 06/2015
Moscheles Piano Concertos Nos 1, 6 and 7
Howard Shelley | Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
In last year’s August issue I celebrated the arrival of the first of Howard Shelley’s Moscheles concerto cycle, marvelling at...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/2003
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