RAFF Complete Works For Cello & Piano

Oxana Shevchenko

Pity Joachim Raff. Pity any fine second-rank composer who had the misfortune to work within the orbit of Liszt, Brahms...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 06/2022

CHOPIN Nocturnes (Fazil Say)

Despite their unmistakable indebtedness to John Field, Chopin’s Nocturnes remain unique in the literature. As a group, they are without parallel...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2017

Fantasie: Seven Composers, Seven Keyboards (Alexander Melnikov)

Alexander Melnikov

Here’s an aural equivalent of time-lapse photography, a quick tour of musical history from JS Bach (a point of reference...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 06/2023

GERNSHEIM String Quartets Vol 2

Alexander Hülshoff | Diogenes Quartet

If you were seeking to dispel the image of Gernsheim as an epigone of Brahms and a lesser-known contemporary of...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2024

Goldmark: Overtures

András Kórodi | Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra

Who, would you say, was the best known Hungarian composer after Liszt around the turn of the century? The answer,...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 9/1985

Merkel Complete Organ Sonatas, Volume 3

Adrian Partington

A little over half of the generous playing time on the CD is devoted to Gustav Merkel’s organ sonatas. The...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 1/1999

Parry: Symphonies

London Philharmonic Orchestra | Matthias Bamert

The Parry revival gathers pace. This is the first disc in a Chandos series which is to embrace the five...

Reviewed in issue 1/1991

Reimann Melusine

Marlene Mild | Nuremberg Philharmonic Orchestra | Peter Hirsch | Richard Kindley | Teresa Erbe

I admire Aribert Reimann but nothing would persuade me that, as these booklet-notes declare, his 1971 Melusine is “one of...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 4/2011

Great Pianists - Moiseiwitsch Vol 13

Benno Moiseiwitsch always ranked among the world’s most delectable pianists. And here on a lucky Volume 13 of Chopin discs...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 9/2010

Schumann C - Complete Piano Works

Josef de Beenhouwer

In his warm appreciation for Clara Schumann’s piano works‚ Gerd Nauhaus’s essay claims that ‘it would be very unjust…to see...

Reviewed in issue 11/2001