SCHUMANN Symphonies (Thielemann. Jansons)

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra | Christian Thielemann | Mariss Jansons | Staatskapelle Dresden

Christian Thielemann’s 60th birthday present to himself is a set of the four Schumann symphonies, which he toured with the...

Reviewed by Libby McPhee in issue: 07/2019

SCHUMANN Liederkreis. Kernerlieder (Goerne)

Leif Ove Andsnes | Matthias Goerne

'Short, maliciously sentimental, and written in the folk style’ was Schumann’s apt verdict on the pithy verses of Heine’s Buch...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2019

SCHUMANN Symphonies Nos 1 & 3 (Gardiner)

John Eliot Gardiner | London Symphony Orchestra

A mere matter of months after issuing Symphonies Nos 2 and 4 with the LSO, John Eliot Gardiner completes the...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2020

SCHUMANN Piano Works (Llŷr Williams)

Llŷr Williams

This pair of generously filled discs attests to the Welsh pianist Llŷr Williams’s passion for this repertoire and his capacity...

Reviewed by Stephen Cera in issue: 02/2024

SCHUMANN; TANEYEV Piano Quintets

Peter Donohoe | Sacconi Quartet

I became obsessed with Sergey Taneyev’s Piano Quintet (1915) after hearing Pletnev, Repin, Gringolts, Imai and Harrell’s incendiary account (DG,...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2024

Enescu Symphonies Nos 1-3

(Les) Eléments Chamber Choir | Audite Nova Vocal Ensemble | Catherine Sydney | Colonne Orchestra Choir | Franco Maggio-Ormezowski | Jean-Paul Barrellon | Lawrence Foster | Lyon National Orchestra | Marius Brenciu | Mark Foster

No excuses now for keeping the best of Enescu’s orchestral output at arm’s length, with two well-filled double packs offering...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 9/2005

Romantic Violin Concertos

Having been awarded a 1999 Gramophone Award for this ongoing series, the Naxos box of 'British Orchestral Masterpieces' must receive...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 3/2000

Otto Klemperer conducts Mozart

New Philharmonia Orchestra | Otto Klemperer | Philharmonia Orchestra

Klemperer made his major Mozart orchestral recordings over a decade between 1957 and 1966 and it is a pity that...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 11/1985

The Art of Duo-Piano Playing

Though not as well known in the UK and Europe as they were in the US, the piano duo of...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2022

NIELSEN 'Espansiva’

Kristoffer Nyholm Hyldig | Rikke Sandberg

Nielsen for piano four hands. Who knew? Probably only those who had been assiduous enough to read the prefaces to...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: AW2024