Wolfgang Holzmair : The Philips Recitals

As this welcome 70th-birthday retrospective reminds us, Austrian baritone Wolfgang Holzmair’s voice is surely one of the most immediately recognisable...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2022

Shura Cherkassky: The Ambassador Auditorium Recitals, 1981-1989

Shura Cherkassky was usually at his best in front of an audience rather than in the studio. Here are four...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2025

SCHUMANN Piano Quartet. Piano Quintet

Alexander Melnikov | Anne-Katharina Schreiber | Antoine Tamestit | Isabelle Faust | Jean-Guihen Queyras

Schumann’s was the first great piano quintet, an instrumental combination virtually unknown at the time. Amazingly, the two Schumann masterpieces...

Reviewed by Stephen Cera in issue: 02/2024

SCHUMANN Three Violin Sonatas (Alina Ibragimova)

Alina Ibragimova | Cédric Tiberghien

It’s interesting how strangely set apart Schumann’s violin sonatas remain from the standard repertoire, and thus how comparatively sporadically new...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 03/2025

SCHUMANN 'Twilight'

Ian Bostridge | Saskia Giorgini

By now, Ian Bostridge’s followers have approximate expectations of any new recording, this one being Schumann songs written mostly in...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2025

Great Singers at the Mariinsky Theatre

(Anonymous) Orchestra | Andrei Labinsky | Antonina Nezhdanova | David Yuzhin | Dmitri Smirnov | Elena Katulskaya | Eugene Vitting | Eugenia Bronskaya | Evgenia Popello-Davidova | Evgeniya Ivanova Zbruyeva

Here is a superb collection, ''courtesy [we are told] of the Director of Staff of the St Petersburg State Museum...

Reviewed in issue 3/1995

Schumann Dichterliebe and other Heine settings

Gerald Finley | Julius Drake

In close collusion with the ever-sentient Julius Drake, Gerald Finley gives one of the most beautifully sung and intensely experienced...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2008

SCHUMANN Violin Sonatas (Joshua Brown)

Joshua Brown | Paolo Giacometti

What qualities do you look for in a Schumann violin sonata? Ardour, certainly, and there’s a fine romantic sweep to...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 06/2025

Anja Harteros - Von ewiger Liebe

Anja Harteros | Wolfram Rieger

Since winning the Cardiff Singer of the World competition in 1999, Anja Harteros has pursued a successful career in opera....

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/2009

Pärt Arbos

Christopher Bowers-Broadbent | David James | Dennis Russell Davies | Gidon Kremer | Hilliard Ensemble | Lynne Dawson | Rogers Covey-Crump | Stuttgart State Orchestra Brass Ensemble | Susan Bickley | Thomas Demenga

As London concertgoers discovered during the 1986 Almeida Festival, the works of Arvo Part urgently cry out for attention. Why,...

Reviewed in issue 9/1987