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SCHUBERT Symphonies Vol 4 (Gardner)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra | Edward Gardner | Mary Bevan
Edward Gardner’s complete Schubert cycle reaches its conclusion with this fourth volume, marking the culmination of a project that began...
Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 04/2025
'Der meint‘es treu!' Music for Fortepiano & Winds from the Biedermeier Salon
Anders Muskens | Elia Celegato | Florencia Gómez
This album seeks to conjure the atmosphere of the salons of Central Europe during the so-called Biedermeyer period, the early...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2025
MARSCHNER Piano Trios Vol 1
Best known for his operas Hans Heiling and Der Vampyr, Heinrich Marschner (1795-1861) also composed seven substantial piano trios that...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2025
Solomon plays Schumann and Brahms
For me, Solomon’s 1952 recordings of Schumann’s Carnaval and the Brahms Sonata in F minor are essential for the desert...
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 7/1997
Pablo Casals at Perpignan and Prades, 1951 & 1953
These 12 discs incorporate an in-built fail-safe against hasty consumption, in that their interpretative ingredients are so rich, varied and...
Reviewed in issue 5/1994
Kissin - Recital Program Vol 11
This is perhaps not as wonderful a solo disc as Kissin’s previous one of the Beethoven Moonlight Sonata, Franck’s Prelude,...
Reviewed in issue 12/1998
Katsaris Live - Piano Recital
'Thrillingly bizarre' would be an appropriate description for this recital. The pieces were performed live between 1975–80 and they vary...
Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 4/1988
Taeguk Mun: Songs of the Cello - Homage to Pablo Casals
‘Homage to Pablo Casals’ is this disc’s subtitle, and there’s nothing like setting yourself a high standard. It’s a sort...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2019
Life Force
Don’t judge this disc by its cover. The artwork is the usual moody monochrome of a young soloist in a...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 09/2018
Claudio Arrau - 100th Anniversary Collection
Of the three great pianists born in 1903 – Arrau, Serkin and Horowitz – Horowitz was almost certainly the most...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 6/2003
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