Adolf Busch and Rudolf Serkin

Adolf Busch | Busch Chamber Players (UK) | Rudolf Serkin

''Rudolf Serkin—The First Recordings'', proclaims EMI's two-disc set, but in fact seven of the nine items contained therein feature the...

Reviewed in issue 12/1992

GRIEG Lyric Pieces

Grieg may not be in the pantheon with the greatest but his freshness of invention continues to give his music...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 06/2015

BRITTEN War Requiem

Beno Blachut | Christopher Maltman | Czech Philharmonic Orchestra | Gabrieli Consort | Gabrieli Players | Gabrieli Young Singers Scheme | Gerald English | John Mark Ainsley | Karel Ancerl | Kühn Children's Chorus

As with his previous recordings of Berlioz’s Grande Messe des morts (11/11) and Mendelssohn’s Elijah (11/12), Paul McCreesh brings together...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 10/2013

Langgaard Symphonies Nos. 6-8

I have not listed Ilya Stupel’s Danacord recordings for Langgaard’s Seventh and Eighth Symphonies above as Dacapo’s new issues are...

Reviewed in issue 9/2001

Mangold Abraham

Bernhard Gärtner | Darmstadt Chorus | Darmstadt Philharmonic Orchestra | Gerd Türk | Gilles Cachemaille | Mechthild Georg | Michael Ruhr | Monika Frimmer | Thomas Essmann | Thomas Sehrbrock

Once highly regarded in his native Hesse, Carl Amand Mangold is little performed today. He was born in 1813, the...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1995

American Chamber Music with Flute

Bruce Coppock | Caitriona Yeats | Fenwick Smith | Katherine Murdoch | Lynn Chang | Marcus Thompson | Randall Hodgkinson | Ronald Thomas | Stephanie Chase | Vyacheslav Uritsky

This is a most attractive release in every way. It was an ingenious idea to couple Copland's works involving the...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 9/1990

C Schumann Piano Works

Uriel Tsachor

On May 20th, 1896, Clara Schumann died within a few months of her seventy-seventh birthday. So this disc comes as...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1996

JANÁCEK Piano Works (Jan Bartos)

Jan Bartoš

Jan Bartoš follows up his first two Supraphon releases respectively devoted to Mozart concertos (10/17) and Beethoven sonatas (A/18) with...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2019

BAERMANN Clarinet Quintets

Henk de Graaf | Schubert Consort Netherlands

Mozart had Anton Stadler and Brahms had Richard Mühlfeld – clarinettists who inspired late masterpieces for their instrument. Heinrich Joseph...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2024

Kenneth Hamilton Plays Liszt, Vol Two: Salon and Stage

Kenneth Hamilton

Listening to Liszt’s take on Wagner’s Tannhäuser Overture – creative in the most authentic sense – is to recall Ronald...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: AW23