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Renée Fleming: Lieder
Christian Thielemann | Hartmut Höll | Munich Philharmonic Orchestra | Renée Fleming
Renée Fleming’s discography is nothing if not varied, with recent albums encompassing Broadway (12/18) as well a premiere recording of...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2018
BRAHMS; LIGETI; MOZART; SCHUMANN Horn Trios
Alessandro Taverna | Francesca Dego | Martin Owen
The rhetorical question arises, listening to this particular instrumental line-up: why doesn’t every composer write a horn trio? In the...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2024
BRAHMS; SCHUMANN; MAHLER Quartets
Daniel Hope | David Finckel | Paul Neubauer | Wu Han
This album comes from a pair of live recitals given at Alice Tully Hall in March. The three piano quartets...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2015
Leonard Shure in Concert at Jordan Hall
Who remembers Leonard Shure (1910-95)? Certainly his students, who often quaked under his critical savagery. I once attended a masterclass...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2012
Leigh: Orchestral works
London Philharmonic Orchestra | Nicholas Braithwaite | Trevor Pinnock
Walter Leigh's discography, has seldom extended, at any one time, much beyond the Harpsichord Concertino, a favourite piece for many...
Reviewed in issue 8/1985
Debussy Piano Music, Vol. 4 - Ballet Transcriptions
This series of Debussy's complete piano music is turning out to be very worthwhile. Not only has the Welsh pianist...
Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 2/1990
Barber/Bristow Orchestral Works
Detroit Symphony Orchestra | Neeme Järvi
As is well-known by now, Samuel Barber withdrew his fine Second Symphony some 20 years after its 1944 Boston premiere....
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/1993
R. Strauss Early Orchestral Works
Jaroslav Opela | Orchesterverein Wilde Gung'l
The booklet is disarmingly frank: “This recording introduces the indulgent listener to an amateur orchestra, the ‘Wilde Gung’l’”. In point...
Reviewed in issue 10/1997
Stainer The Crucifixion
It is easy to dismiss Stainer’s Crucifixion as the epitome of English musical disfunctionality in the nineteenth century. Yet, over...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 13/1997
Schubert: Trios and Notturno
This is a spacious view of Schubert's music for piano trio. The Fontenay Trio are a gifted ensemble of young...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 1/1989
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