Catriona Morison: The Dark Night has Vanished

Catriona Morison | Malcolm Martineau

With her rich tone that records as charismatically as Christa Ludwig’s, Catriona Morison achieves inviting surface lustre in this debut...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2021

Zlata Chochieva: (re)creations

Zlata Chochieva

‘It is about creating something again, about reinventing and breathing life into masterpieces we know from the past.’ Thus Zlata...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2021

MOSCHELES Études, Op 70 (Michele Bolla)

Michele Bolla

In the evolution of the piano étude, Moscheles’s set of 24 studies in all the major and minor keys provides...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2023

Renewal

Julian Azkoul | Ruby Hughes | United Strings of Europe

Following up on their very well-received debut album ‘In Motion’ (2/21), the United Strings of Europe (formed by students at...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2022

CHOPIN Piano Sonatas Nos 2 & 3; RACHMANINOV Variations on a Theme of Chopin (Peter Donohoe)

Peter Donohoe

As they join the ranks of éminences grises, many musicians turn retrospective, revisiting repertoire high points to make final refinements....

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 02/2024

FINNIS 'Youth'

Clare Hammond

Those au fait with the music of Edmund Finnis via releases such as ‘The Air, Turning’ (NMC, 4/19) and ‘Shades’...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2024

Brahms; Schubert; Schumann Piano Works

Wilhelm Kempff

There have been three CDs devoted to Kempff in the BBC Legends series and this one will, I think, be...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 12/2003

Christoph & Julian Prégardien: Father & Son

Christoph Prégardien | Julian Prégardien

Prégardien père and fils have been performing together for several years and this disc of duets – some original, most...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2015

Erlkönig - The Art of the Lied

Christa Ludwig | Christoph Eschenbach | Daniel Barenboim | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Fritz Wunderlich | Gerald Moore | Hubert Giesen | Irwin Gage | Jessye Norman | Jörg Demus

Anybody in the early stages of investigating the German Lied will find this a useful disc. The selection of songs...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 1/2001

Cameron Carpenter - Revolutionary

My introduction to Cameron Carpenter (b1981) was on YouTube last year. The clip showed a young organist in white bespangled...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2008