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Mozart Works for Violin & Orchestra, Vol. 2
This CD contains several little-known items and the first of these, the lyrical Adagio in E, was probably written as...
Reviewed in issue 12/1985
Bach; Haydn; Schumann Piano Works
Three BBC studio sessions from the great Dame Myra are an unexpected and welcome find, but the programme proves to...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 6/2007
Brahms Symphonies Nos. 1-3 & Overtures
Some years ago Kurt Masur recorded all four Brahms symphonies with the Leipzig Gewandhaus (Philips, 9/79 – nla), and I...
Reviewed in issue 1/1997
Margaret Price sings Romantic Songs
Jack Brymer | James Lockhart | Margaret Price
If a singer of the young Margaret Price's radiant gifts were to walk into a recording studio today, the microphones...
Reviewed in issue 11/1995
MOZART; SCHUMANN; BRUCH; STRAVINSKY Clarinet Trios
What a little miracle Mozart’s Kegelstatt Trio (1786) is: just under 20 minutes of his finest music for his three...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2023
Michele Pertusi - Serenata
Michele Pertusi | Parma Opera Ensemble
The problem (for there is one) of presenting songs of this kind with satisfactory arrangements and accompaniments finds a novel...
Reviewed in issue 11/1998
Lehmann Complete 1947 and 1949 Recordings
Lotte Lehmann | Paul Ulanowsky | RCA Victor Chamber Orchestra | Richard Lert | Robert Armbruster
It is well to remember Lehmann’s age from the start (she was 60 in 1948), and it can then be...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/2000
Stanislav Khristenko: Fantasies
Stanislav Khristenko’s first-place victory in the 2013 Cleveland International Piano Competition generated well-deserved online chatter, much of it directed to...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2014
Rubinstein plays Bach, Franck & Liszt
The Bach/Busoni and the Franck were recorded in 1970 and are characteristic of Rubinstein's strongly disciplined way with large-scale forms....
Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 9/1988
Lieder Recital Waltraud Meier
Gerhard Oppitz | Waltraud Meier
Schubert and Schumann are not the first names to spring to mind when Waltraud Meier is mentioned, and none of...
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 4/1998
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