Pavel Nersessian plays Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty

Pavel Nersessian

Pavel Nersessian is a 33-year-old Russian pianist and a prize-winner in many competitions. He is also the sort of free...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 3/1998

Géza Anda - Piano Recital

Géza Anda

Don’t be put off by the opening movement of the Beethoven sonata (the first item on the disc) or the...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 2/2004

Tamar Beraia: Portrait

Ferruccio Busoni | Tamar Beraia

For her debut album, Tamar Beraia, a 27-year-old Georgian pianist, offers a richly comprehensive programme. Her quicksilver brilliance lends a...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 06/2014

Schumann Dichterliebe & Kerner-Lieder

Daniel Barenboim | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Günther Weissenborn | Jörg Demus | Sviatoslav Richter

It is possible (though I don't quite see how) to love Fischer-Dieskau's records and not particularly want to play them....

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 6/2000

Artur Rubinstein - Recital 1963

Arthur Rubinstein

Here is a live recital (at least, “highlights from the live recording” – we are not told what has been...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 13/2008

Karita Mattila - Wild Rose

Ilmo Ranta | Karita Mattila

Karita Mattila is one of the most admired sopranos of her generation, in demand at all the opera houses in...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1997

Paul Schoeffler Recital

Clemens Krauss | Ernest Lush | Hans Knappertsbusch | Karl Rankl | London Philharmonic Orchestra | London Symphony Orchestra | Maria Reining | National Symphony Orchestra | Paul Schöffler | Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra

Paul Schoeffler's career bestraddled the war years. Indeed, he was probably at the peak of his form during the conflict,...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1995

Ullmann Der Kaiser von Atlantis

Arthur Hosking | Charles Goulding | Christiane Oelze | Doris Hemingway | Elizabeth Harwood | Elsie Morison | Franz Mazura | George Baker | Gladys Gowrie | Graeme Danby

The subtitle of Viktor Ullmann's opera means ''The denial of death''. Death is portrayed as an old soldier, proud of...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 12/1994

Rubinstein plays Chopin Mazurkas

Arthur Rubinstein

The trouble with recording a cycle of works such as this is that the economics of today's recording schedules necessitates...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 9/1989

Beethoven; Brahms Piano Works

At least two plums here‚ the first of them the Richter set‚ opening with a model ‘Classical’ Beethoven First Concerto...

Reviewed in issue 13/2001