Bartlett & Robertson: Selected recordings 1927-1947

Arnold Bax | Rae Robertson

Here is that ideal post Christmas present – a box of delights if ever there was one. APR’s two-disc album...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 02/2014

Vladimir Horowitz Recital

Vladimir Horowitz

Much of the mystique surrounding the name of Vladimir Horowitz is due to his well-publicized withdrawals from the public arena,...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 5/1986

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - Early Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon

(Karl) Ristenpart Chamber Orchestra | Alan Ewing | Alexander Young | Alexei Grigorev | Alfredo Giacomotti | Alicia Nafé | Alison Browner | Ann Murray | Anna Maria Panzarella | Anna Reynolds

If some virgin ear drawn to inspired singing were to ask why that protean artist Fischer-Dieskau was considered such a...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/2005

G.Lloyd Symphony No 8

George Lloyd | Philharmonia Orchestra

It was George Lloyd’s Eighth Symphony that stimulated a fresh growth of interest in the composer’s music when it was...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 6/1997

Parry Chamber Works, Vol.1

Deakin Pf Trio | Yuko Inoue

After the success of the Chandos series of the Parry symphonies, it is good to have his chamber music appearing...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/1994

Debussy/Ravel String Quartets

Orlando Quartet

The Orlando Quartet was rightly acclaimed in these columns only a few months ago for their record of two Haydn...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 4/1984

BEETHOVEN Piano Trios, Vol 1 (Sitkovetsky Trio)

Sitkovetsky Piano Trio

Did any composer make a bigger splash with their Op 1 than Beethoven? Taking what had hitherto been a small-scale...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2020

The Alchemy of the Piano - A film by Jan Schmidt-Garre with Francesco Piemontesi

Films about the piano and pianists these days are as rare as hen’s teeth. Anyone who can get such a...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2025

Schumann Kreisleriana; Prokofiev Piano Sonata No 2

Alexander Kniazev | Bertrand Chamayou | Boris Berezovsky | Christian Ivaldi | David Fray | Dmitri Makhtin | Eliso Virsaladze | Frank Braley | Iddo Bar-Shai | Jean-Claude Pennetier

All five DVDs celebrate René Martin’s La Roque d’Anthéron Piano Festival, founded in 1980 in the heart and, judging by...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2005

Bruch Violin Concerto No 1; Romance

Andrew Litton | Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra | Ilze Klava | Maxim Rysanov | Reinis Birznieks | Sandis Steinbergs | Vadim Gluzman

Between 1918 and his death two years later, the octogenarian Bruch, in a final burst of creativity, wrote two string...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 8/2011