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Alexis Weissenberg plays Ravel, Schumann & Mussorgsky
Here, on a two-CD recital taken live from the Salzburg Festival, is Alexis Weissenberg in all his alternating brilliance and...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 02/2013
Brahms Tragic Overture; Schumann Symphony o 2; strauss, R Don Juan
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | George Szell
Perhaps it is a sign of advancing years but after hearing just eight bars of this performance of Brahms’s Tragic...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/2005
Deutsche Motette
A concerto for choir by any other name, Richard Strauss’s Deutsche Motette has a good claim to being the hardest...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2013
Olivier Latry plays Alkan, Boëly, Brahms, Liszt, Schumann
Let me describe the instrument you are listening to because the chances are that, like me, you will have heard...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2011
Clifford Curzon - BBC Recitals
Decca’s invaluable DVD and bonus CD contains all known footage of Sir Clifford Curzon in solo recital, made available for...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 13/2007
Wilhelm Kempff - Complete 1950s solo recordings
DG follow their earlier five-disc set of Kempff’s complete 1950s concerto recordings with a further five-CD set of his Brahms and...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 13/2003
Bach Well-Tempered Klavier, Book I
Hans Swarowsky | Mieczyslaw Horszowski | Vienna State Opera Orchestra
It is only now, with Mieczyslaw Horszowski recently having died at the patrician age of 100, that one can hear...
Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 12/1993
SCHUMANN Märchenbilder SCHUBERT Arpeggione Sonata
The Arpeggione Sonata, for a bowed guitar, is not ideally suited to either viola or cello. The viola lacks some...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 02/2014
Brahms/Schumann Violin Concertos
Here are two more formidable additions to the long list of Brahms Violin Concerto recordings, both generously coupled, and both...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/1996
Simon Barere at Carnegie Hall, Vol.1
(Anonymous) Orchestra | David Broekman | Simon Barere
After the appearance of Bryan Crimp's valuable refurbishments of Simon Barere's dazzling HMV recordings of 1934–6 (# APR7001, 12/85), an...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 11/1989
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