PROKOFIEV Romeo & Juliet SCHUMANN Dichterliebe

Frank Dupree | Timothy Ridout

Something old, something new, something borrowed … I guess all transcriptions are borrowed – or purloined – and viola players...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: AW21

C&E SCHUMANN Works for Viola; for Oboe; for Clarinet

Dasol Kim | James Baillieu | Julian Bliss | Julius Drake | Maxim Rysanov | Nicholas Daniel

How prescient of Schumann to designate many of his sets of domestic chamber miniatures for a choice of instruments. Not...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2024

Martha Argerich and Friends at Lugano 2010

Alexandre Gurning | Gautier Capuçon | Giorgia Tomassi | Jacek Kaspszyk | Lilya Zilberstein | Martha Argerich | Nicholas Angelich | Renaud Capuçon | Svizzera Italiana Orchestra

Tired of the strains and stresses of her former and extraordinary career, Martha Argerich now takes up annual residence in...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/2011

Handel Messiah

I wouldn't, to be honest, pop any of these Messiahs into my Christmas stockings. The differences between them—and there are...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 12/1987

KARG-ELERT The Complete Organ Works, Vol 15 (Stefan Engels)

Although it has taken 14 years, the mighty challenge for one player to record the complete organ works of Sigfrid...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 07/2018

Thomas Dausgaard conducts Brahms, Dvorak, Nielsen, Sibelius

Danish National Symphony Orchestra | Thomas Dausgaard

Flying down from the gods to the stage in Copenhagen’s handsome Concert Hall is akin to a Harry Potter experience....

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2012

Tchaikovskiana

John Lenehan | Tasmin Little

How welcome to have a new recording from Tasmin Little, now at the peak of her form, as we heard...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 13/2003

Les introuvables de Jacqueline du Pré

Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Daniel Barenboim | English Chamber Orchestra | Ernest Lush | Gerald Moore | Jacqueline du Pré | John Barbirolli | London Symphony Orchestra | Malcolm Sargent | New Philharmonia Orchestra

As the title suggests, this fine six-disc retrospective of Jacqueline du Pre's recording career—a mere ten years long—was master-minded by...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/1994

WAGNER Der Ring des Nibelungen

Andreas Conrad | Anja Fidelia Ulrich | Anna Larsson | Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra | Christa Mayer | Christian Elsner | Edith Haller | Günther Groissböck | Iris Vermillion | Jacquelyn Wagner

Following his 1980-83 studio cycle with the Dresden Staatskapelle (Eurodisc, currently on Sony), Marek Janowski’s Pentatone set with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 08/2016

Magda Tagliaferro: The complete 78-rpm solo and concerto recordings

Denise Soriano | Jean Fournet | Lamoureux Orchestra | Magda Tagliaferro | Orchestre du Gramophone | Pasdeloup Concert Association Orchestra | Reynaldo Hahn

I heard Magda Tagliaferro only once: she played at the Naumburg Bandshell in Central Park at the conclusion of the...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2020