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Brahms Piano Concerto No 2; Schumann Piano Concerto
Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Fritz Reiner | Van Cliburn
Van Cliburn’s triumph at the first International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1958 and his unprecedented ticker-tape welcome home was a story...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 6/2011
Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet; Symphony 3
London Philharmonic Orchestra | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Thomas Beecham
Sir Thomas Beecham was unquestionably the greatest conductor Britain has ever produced. Fortunately his art is very extensively preserved, since...
Reviewed in issue 6/1989
SCHUBERT Schwanengesang. String Quintet
These days you can never predict how performers are going to present Schubert’s posthumously published non-cycle. What we get here...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2021
The Kreisler Collection
Perhaps the least well-known recordings in this collection are those where Kreisler plays the piano for his cellist brother. Hugo...
Reviewed in issue 7/1990
Spannungen Special
Boris Pergamenschikov | Christian Tetzlaff | Lars Vogt | Sabine Meyer
Recorded live at the Heimbach Chamber Music Festival, this three-disc box of Brahms’s duo sonatas gives a vivid idea of...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/2004
Mengelberg conducts Richard Strauss
(Royal) Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam | Willem Mengelberg
It is March 1940 in Amsterdam, merely weeks before the fall of Holland and some seven months before the enforced...
Reviewed in issue 12/1993
Brahms; Franck; Schumann Violin Sonatas
Milana Chernyavska | Rudens Turku
According to Jan Swafford (Johannes Brahms; Macmillan: 1998), the Second Violin Sonata ‘paints a picture of Brahms at his desk...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 4/2006
Piano Music for Children
Tchaikovsky's Album for the young might seem the rarity here, for these 24 miniature pieces are technically too easy to...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 10/1994
Grigory Sokolov plays…
Camille Saint-Saëns | Grigory Sokolov
Sokolov first came to attention by winning the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1966, aged 16. For his final audition he...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2013
SAINT-SAËNS; SCHUMANN Cello Concertos
Antonio Meneses | Claudio Cruz | Royal Northern Sinfonia
Fitzenhagen or Tchaikovsky unadulterated? There’s the rub with the Rococo Variations. The noted German cellist Wilhelm Fitzenhagen premiered the work...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW17
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