Robert Plane: Reawakened

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra | Martyn Brabbins | Robert Plane

Robert Plane has done more than his share of reawakening for the clarinet repertoire, and this latest album features three...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2021

Lucy Parham: I, Clara

Clara Schumann knew a thing or two about multitasking. As the mother of eight children by her husband Robert, she...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 01/2020

Daniel Hope: For Seasons

Daniel Hope | Zurich Chamber Orchestra

Daniel Hope’s ‘For Seasons’ album is struggling to be high-concept but much of the music that supports the concept is...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 06/2017

Emil Gilels - BBC Recordings

Emil Gilels

The Scarlatti sonatas come from the first studio recording Gilels made for the BBC, in 1957. That was also the...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 8/1999

Brahms Piano Concerto 2

Adrian Boult | Artur Schnabel | BBC Symphony Orchestra

Following hard on the heels of Naxos’s invaluable reissue of the First Concerto (12/01) comes a scarcely less important sequel....

Reviewed in issue 2/2002

Brahms Piano Quartet Op 25; Schumann Fantasiestücke

Gidon Kremer | Martha Argerich | Mischa Maisky | Yuri Bashmet

You’d expect this line-up of performers to give us something remarkable, and so they do; the powerfully projected emotions and...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 4/2004

Schumann Cello Concerto; Brahms Serenade No. 1

Claudio Abbado | Mahler Chamber Orchestra | Natalia Gutman

What I most enjoyed about this superbly engineered CD was the high level of musical interrelation that it more or...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 7/2007

Hélène Grimaud - Reflection

Anne Sofie von Otter | Esa-Pekka Salonen | Hélène Grimaud | Staatskapelle Dresden | Truls Mørk

Passing from ’Credo’, the title of her first DG recital, to ‘Reflection’, Hélène Grimaud presents us with a second lovingly...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/2006

Michaela Schuster: Morgen!

Markus Schlemmer | Michaela Schuster

The German mezzo Michaela Schuster is best known as an operatic animal, with a repertoire that includes big-hitting Wagner and...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 09/2015

Works for Cello and Piano

János Starker | Shigeo Neriki

Brahms's Cello Sonata in D? A misprint you might at first think when reading the title. But no: this is...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1992