Mezzo Moon: Lieder and Songs

Pia Heise | Roger Vignoles

Pia Heise has an attractive voice and sings with appealing candour. Roger Vignoles is an attentive, vastly experienced accompanist. Yet...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: AW/2012

Alman & Shostakovich Jewish legends in music

Arlene Saunders | Carole Rosen | Helen Lawrence | Louis Berkman

As the international secular and literary language of the Jews, Yiddish has been often suppressed but has remained a focus...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 9/1985

Vieuxtemps/Lalo Violin Concertos

(Royal) Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam | Charles Dutoit | Philharmonia Orchestra | Sarah Chang

Vieuxtemps’s Fifth Violin Concerto opens disarmingly, but the tutti gathers strength in Dutoit’s hands before Chang steals in silkily (at...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 5/1996

MOSZKOWSKI Piano Works, Vol 1 (Ian Hobson)

‘If I pass him by, who will praise Moritz Moszkowski?’ asked JB Priestley in Delight, his life-affirming collection of essays...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2021

BERG; SCHOENBERG; STRAUSS 'Longing'

Anna Tilbrook | Lucy Crowe

Collectively titled ‘Longing’, this album juxtaposes songs by Strauss, Berg and Schoenberg written between 1885 and 1948 – encompassing two...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: AW21

Dame Janet Baker - Song Recital

André Previn | Cecil Aronowitz | Daniel Barenboim | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Janet Baker | John Barbirolli | London Symphony Orchestra | New Philharmonia Orchestra

There comes a time in each great singer’s career when they are at the peak of their form: artistry, voice,...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 6/1996

Beamish; Walton Viola Concertos

Christoph Eschenbach | David Aaron Carpenter | Garry Walker | North German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra | Philharmonia Orchestra | Tatjana Masurenko

A product of the St Petersburg State Conservatory and later pupil of Kim Kashkashian and Nobuko Imai, Tatjana Masurenko is...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2009

Danish Piano Trios

The Danish Piano Trio | Trio Ismena

Two discs from two Danish ensembles coincide to chart the history of the piano trio in the country from its...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 01/2016

Liederkreis: Decades – A Century of Song, Vol 4: 1840-1850

Alexey Gusev | Anush Hovhannisyan | Florian Boesch | Ida Evelina Ränzlöv | Malcolm Martineau | Nick Pritchard | Oliver Johnston | Samuel Hasselhorn

Schumann’s bittersweet Heine cycle of love frustrated and love betrayed heads the billing here. But as in earlier volumes of...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2020

RINCK Chamber Music Vols 1 & 2 (Trio Parnassus)

Parnassus Trio

Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck (1770-1846) was a celebrated organist in his day and is best known for the music he...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2021