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Elisabeth Schwarzkopf in Carnegie Hall
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf | George Reeves
How many singers have ever undertaken a recital of this length and variety, and executed it with such consummate mastery?...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1989
Victoria de los Angeles – Recital
BBC Symphony Orchestra | Gerald Moore | Rudolf Schwarz | Victoria de los Ángeles
When Victoria de los Angeles appeared at the Edinburgh Festival in 1957, she was in her prime, the voice as...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/2003
Alexander Kipnis (1891-1978) - III
(Anonymous) Orchestra | Alexander Kipnis | Arthur Bergh | Frank Bibb
Here is some of the finest Kipnis, which means some of the best bass singing on record. The Schubert songs...
Reviewed in issue 6/1997
Bruch Symphony No. 3; Suite on Russian Themes
Hungarian State Orchestra | Manfred Honeck
Max Bruch's Third (and last) Symphony was first performed in 1883, when he was 45 (it was revised three years...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 10/1988
Bruch Scottish Fantasy. Lalo Symphonie espagnole
Royal Scottish National Orchestra | Tasmin Little | Vernon Handley
It is an excellent idea to couple Bruch’s evocation of Scotland with Lalo’s of Spain, both works in unconventional five-movement...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/1997
Bruch;Wienawski Violin Concertos
James Gourlay | London Symphony Orchestra
Wieniawski’s First Concerto, written when he was 18, is no match for its popular successor; one senses that the ambition...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 13/2011
BRUCH Symphonies Nos 1-3 (Trevino)
Bamberger Symphoniker | Robert Trevino
Poor old Max Bruch: a composer born to spin long lyrical melodies in a culture that demanded that its symphonists...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2020
Agnus Dei II
Capricorn | Edward Higginbottom | New College Choir, Oxford
A wise man said you should not swim in the same river twice, and somebody is bound to add that...
Reviewed in issue 6/1998
Barley (The) Silver Swan
Cellists like to get together to form multi-cello ensembles; in making a disc in which he’s the sole performer, Matthew...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 13/2003
Jenny Lin: Night Stories
Jenny Lin has always shown a knack for thematic programme-building, and this collection of pieces inspired by the night ranges...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW2014
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