Scene d'Amore

Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra | Mikko Franck | Soile Isokoski

Soile Isokoski has established herself as one of the leading Mozart and Strauss sopranos of the day. In this new...

Reviewed by po'connor in issue: 13/2008

SCHUMANN String Quartets. Piano Quintet

Adam Laloum | Hanson Quartet

As musical birthday presents go, Schumann’s three string quartets vie with Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll – both were dedicated to the...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2024

Popper Works for Cello and Orchestra

(Nicolaus) Esterházy Sinfonia | Alex Klein | Bjarte Engeset | Brinegar Singers (Donald) | Carla Wood | Carlo Scibelli | Caroline Stinson | Charles Gerhardt | Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Dale Clevenger

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 6/2001

Carolyn Sampson: Reason in Madness

Carolyn Sampson | Joseph Middleton

‘There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness’, Nietzsche wrote. His words...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 06/2019

Cradle Song

John Lenehan | Julian Lloyd Webber | Pam Chowhan | Richard Rodney Bennett

This album provides a companion to Julian Lloyd Webber’s much admired “Cello Song” a couple of years ago (10/93), and...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 1/1996

Neil Shicoff sings Live

Fabio Luisi | Marcello Viotti | Munich Radio Orchestra | Neil Shicoff | Vladimir Chernov

Neil Shicoff is a tenor many readers will have come to value on both stage and records. Up to now,...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 8/2003

(20) Great Pianists

Alfred Cortot | Alicia de Larrocha | Arthur Rubinstein | Claudio Arrau | Egon Petri | Emil Gilels | Guiomar Novaes | Ignace Jan Paderewski | Kyrill Kondrashin | Leopold Godowsky

Who has still got their LP of RCA Victrola VIC1210 “Keyboard Giants of the Past”? It was instrumental in firing...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 1/2007

Nielsen Piano Works

Leif Ove Andsnes

Leaving aside Grieg, neither Sibelius nor Nielsen has attracted much attention from non-Nordic pianists. True, among pianists of international standing...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 8/1996

Nielsen Symphonies 2 & 4

Danish State Radio Symphony Orchestra | Launy Grøndahl | Thomas Jensen

These premiere recordings have appeared on a two-LP set (EMI, 7/85), in harness with Erik Tuxen’s 78s of the Fifth...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 12/1996

Nielsen String Quartets, Vol 1

Tim Frederiksen | Young Danish Quartet

I’m not sure what the members of the Danish Quartet, who recorded the Nielsen quartets more than effectively in 1992...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 7/2007