Dvorák; Schumann Cello Concertos

Benjamin Britten | English Chamber Orchestra | Evgeni Svetlanov | London Symphony Orchestra | Mstislav Rostropovich | USSR State Symphony Orchestra

Truly legendary performances are rare, whatever it says on the label, but this heroic account of the Dvorák Concerto deserves...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 7/2003

Beethoven Violin Concerto

Chianti Orchestra | Piero Bellugi | Ruggiero Ricci

In some respects, this is the ultimate CD bargain: a single concerto recording that can be reprogrammed to incorporate any...

Reviewed in issue 6/1996

Goldmark Violin Concerto

Cologne Gürzenich Orchestra | James Conlon | Sarah Chang

No sooner had I put the finishing touches to my review of Joshua Bell's new Sony recording of Goldmark's First...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 5/2000

Beethoven Cantatas

Collegiate Chorale | Deborah Voigt | Elizabeth Futral | Gregory Cross | Jan Opalach | Robert Bass | St Luke's Orchestra | Vagabond Children's Ensemble

The “glorious moment” was that of the Congress of Vienna in 1814, which was also the year when Beethoven’s fortunes...

Reviewed in issue 13/1997

Boëly Works for Strings

Edouard Popa | Paris String Trio

The name of Alexandre Boely is familiar in the organist's world but hardly in the chamber musician's. He lived from...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 8/1987

Wagner (Die) Walküre

Albert Dohmen | Charlotte Margiono | Doris Soffel | Dorothy Grandia | Ellen van Haaren | Hartmut Haenchen | Hebe Dijkstra | Irene Pieters | John Keyes | Kurt Rydl

They manage things well in Amsterdam. After DVDs from the first round of the Pierre Audi/ Georges Tsypin production, now...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 4/2007

Songs & Sonnets - Songs In English and German from the Reign of Queen Victoria

Belinda Williams | David Owen Norris | Mark Wilde

‘I found I could get along better with the German than the English words’, confided Hubert Parry in a diary...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2019

William Murdoch: The complete Columbia solo electrical recordings

William Murdoch’s name does not readily come up in discussions about great pianists active in the 20th century’s first half,...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW2019

HELLER Variations for Piano. Kinderszenen. Notenbuch für Klein und Gross

Biliana Tzinlikova

Stephen Heller (1813 88) sits below the salt and on these showings at least he is unlikely to win a...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2016

GOUVY Cantate, Oeuvres symphoniques et Musique de chambre

‘Nobody cares what I have done; in Paris people think only of themselves and of the present…More and more I...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 08/2014