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CHAARTS Chamber Artists | Sebastian Bohren
First to arrive was a CD called ‘Equal’ (7/16), the focus there being Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, and now we have...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 06/2017
BRAHMS Symphony No 1
Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Georg Solti
Hard to believe, I know, but the high-profile September 1971 Edinburgh Festival concert from which the contents of this DVD...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 02/2013
Piano Works for Three Hands
Younger readers should perhaps be reminded of the international reputation long enjoyed by Cyril Smith and Phyllis Sellick as a...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 9/1989
Violin Works
Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Claudio Abbado | Clifford Benson | Shlomo Mintz
Both concertos receive performances of strong personality and an impressive eloquence—and, it goes without saying, altogether impeccable technique. I see...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 12/1987
Salonkonzert
Eric Hoeprich | Konrad Hünteler | Melvyn Tan | Michel Garcin-Marrou
This is an attractive programme of the familiar and not-so-familiar that does not quite come off in performance. At the...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1990
Organ music at Concertgebouw
I can't remember the last time I heard such a varied and wide-ranging programme which worked so well. As befits...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 10/1993
A Quattro Cori: Music for 16 Voices
The 1783 trip to Italy of the musician and writer JF Reichardt had far-reaching implications. He returned to his native...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 09/2014
Songs Without Words
This is the kind of record I have been hoping Murray Perahia would make for some time, one that plays...
Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 3/2000
Europakonzert 2016
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Simon Rattle | Vilde Frang
May 1, 2016, will probably go down as a red-letter day in the affairs of Røros, the remote former copper-mining...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/2016
Toscanini Collection, Vol.64
Arturo Toscanini | New York Philharmonic Orchestra | New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
This Beethoven Seventh has never been surpassed. It has every attribute—rhythmic vitality, power, lyricism—and communicates in a very extraordinary fashion....
Reviewed in issue 11/1992
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