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GRANADOS; TURINA Piano Quintets
Cuarteto Quiroga | Javier Perianes
Javier Perianes here champions two chamber works by composers who hailed from Andalusia, as indeed does he. Perianes has shown...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 12/2015
SCHUBERT Symphonies Nos 1, 3 & 4
Philippe Herreweghe | Royal Flemish Philharmonic Orchestra
Philippe Herreweghe’s previous excursions on disc with Schubert’s symphonies were the Ninth in 2011 and the Sixth and Eighth in...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2016
SCHUBERT 8 Impromptus
The sensitivity, tonal refinement and occasional micromanagement typifying Amir Katz’s Chopin Nocturnes, Ballades and Impromptus (Oehms) and Mendelssohn Songs Without...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2016
The Soldier's Return: Guitar music inspired by Scotland
What happens when the expansive romantic visions of an ‘exotic’ Scotland such as one finds in Beethoven, Rossini, Mendelssohn or...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 08/2016
Llŷr Williams: Wagner Without Words
Wagner’s operas have inspired innumerable piano transcriptions from Carl Tausig to Zoltán Kocsis but those to which pianists most frequently...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2014
Flux: Original Works for Saxophone Quartet
I’m not sure it’s possible for a saxophone quartet to be a warhorse, as such; nonetheless, I was initially mildly...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 09/2017
MONIUSZKO Milda. Nijoła
These are the very first recordings on CD of two cantatas by Moniuszko on themes taken from part of the...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 05/2020
Liszt Piano Works, Vol.18
At the opera Liszt is well-known, as two discs in Leslie Howard's mammoth cycle have already reaffirmed. At the theatre,...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 3/1993
SUPPÉ Fantasia Symphonica; Orchestral Overtures; Preludes (Rudner)
Ola Rudner | Tonkünstler Orchestra
The star attraction in this attractive Suppé collection is the Fantasia symphonica, a recent discovery by the conductor Ola Rudner,...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 02/2024
Lieder and Song Recital
Peter Schreier | Wolfgang Sawallisch
Sometimes a recording comes along that puts in the shade all recent listening. Such a one is Schreier's latest account...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1990
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