Brahms; Mahler; Schubert; Schumann Songs (Meinders Piano Transcriptions)

Frédéric Meinders

This warm and affectionate recital takes up the cudgels on behalf of the art of transcription. Songs by Schubert, Schumann,...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/2009

Favourite Cello Concertos

Academy of St Martin in the Fields | Barry Wordsworth | BBC Concert Orchestra | Czech Philharmonic Orchestra | English Chamber Orchestra | John Birch | Julian Lloyd Webber | London Symphony Orchestra | Maxim Shostakovich | Neville Marriner

A first-class package in every way. As we know from his live performances, Julian Lloyd Webber has a firm, richly...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/1999

Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Ingrid Haebler

Colin Davis | Ingrid Haebler | London Symphony Orchestra | Netherlands Chamber Orchestra | Szymon Goldberg

As with one or two previous issues in this series, greatness is, to say the least, debatable here. Ingrid Haebler...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 8/1999

The Ballad Singer

This collection of strophic ballads has its fair share of the Gothic and Grand Guignol, most of it concerned with...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 8/2011

Brendan Goh: Moments of Youth

Brendan Goh | Reinhard Schobesberger

This is Singaporean cellist Brendan Goh’s second recording (the first was a charity CD), and the title presumably refers to...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2015

Zino Francescatti

André Cluytens | Max Lanner | Robert Casadesus | Symphony Orchestra | Zino Francescatti

Even though Zino Francescatti was still per-forming as recently as the mid-1970s, this 1945 Symphonie espagnole, his first concerto recording,...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 9/1997

Rorem Sun, String Quartet No. 3

Brian Asawa | Gary Gray | Glen Barton Cortese | Jeffrey Kahane | Lauren Flanigan | Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra | Manhattan School of Music Symphony | Margaret Batjer | Mendelssohn Quartet

After years of neglect by the big record companies, close on the heels of Susan Graham’s recital of Ned Rorem’s...

Reviewed in issue 9/2000

(The) Chaliapin Edition, Volume 3 1911-13

(Anonymous) Orchestra | Carlo Sabajno | Choir (anonymous) | Daniil Pokhitonov | Feodor Chaliapin | Milan La Scala Orchestra

With the world in its present state it may not seem appropriate to refer to this as a disaster­area‚ and...

Reviewed in issue 3/2002

Jessye Norman Song Recital

Geoffrey Parsons | Jessye Norman

Recorded live in June last year at the Hohenems Festival in Austria, this vividly conveys the electricity of a Jessye...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/1988

Suzanne Danco - Opera Arias & Songs

Gervase de Peyer | Guido Agosti | Jeanne Demessieux | Jonel Perlea | Milan La Scala Orchestra | Phyllis Spurr | Suzanne Danco

Listening to Danco, I find a memory stirring, which, pinned down, is recognized as Shaw's annoyance with young Nellie Melba...

Reviewed in issue 2/1986