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Brahms Violin Concerto; Schumann Fantasie,Op 131
Anne-Sophie Mutter | Kurt Masur | New York Philharmonic Orchestra
This must surely be among the boldest, sweetest, most sensual and most provocatively phrased accounts of Brahms’s Violin Concerto ever...
Reviewed in issue 12/1997
Brahms/Schumann Chamber Works
First, the instruments themselves, both from Washington’s Smithsonian Museum – the legendary Stradivarius once owned by the great Belgian cellist,...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 1/1996
Schumann and Brahms Lieder
Anthony Legge | John Harrington | Linda Finnie
Linda Finnie is still an artist underrated in her own land. Feted at Bayreuth as Fricka in the current Ring,...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1991
Schumann/Brahms Lieder Recital
Whatever performance may in the meantime have intervened, listening to Seefried’s Frauenliebe again is like returning to base, to the...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1996
SCHUMANN Fantasiestücke. Kreileriana BRAHMS Theme and Variations
Many years ago I noted an element of caution in Imogen Cooper’s playing. Her way with Debussy’s ‘Poissons d’or’ in...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 03/2013
BRAHMS Violin Sonata No 1 R SCHUMANN Violin Sonata No 1
Brahms wrote his First Violin Sonata in 1878-79, immediately after the Violin Concerto. It was conceived as a sonatina and...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 06/2013
French Cello Works
English Chamber Orchestra | Julian Lloyd Webber | Yan Pascal Tortelier
This disc makes for a satisfying programme. I agree with its title, too, for although reference books often call Honegger...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 6/1991
ViolAlive
Ariel Zuckermann | Gilad Karni | Zürcher Kammerorchester
Like so many of his string quartets, Shostakovich’s Viola Sonata lends itself ready to orchestral transcription, in the process gaining...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 13/2011
Arriaga Symphony in D
Algarve Orchestra | Álvaro Cassuto
The precocious gifts of Arriaga are of an order to be set alongside those of a Mozart or a Mendelssohn....
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 12/2003
Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony
Berne Symphony Orchestra | Daniel Chorzempa | Peter Maag
Peter Maag does not seem to make very many records, but when they arrive they seldom disappoint. One remembers an...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/1987
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