Rachmaninov Solo Piano Works

Simon Trpceski

For youthful bravura, technique to burn and heart-on-sleeve emotion, you need look no further: 26-year-old Macedonian virtuoso Simon Trpceski is...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 4/2005

MAHLER Symphony No 4 BRAHMS Symphony No 2 WAGNER Tannhäuser Overture

Bamberg Symphony Orchestra | BBC Symphony Orchestra | Joan Alexander | London Symphony Orchestra | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Rudolf Kempe

Rudolf Kempe belonged to that increasingly rare breed of conductors for whom musical mood and content rather than individual temperament...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2014

Women's Lives and Loves

Angelika Kirchschlager | Felicity Lott | Graham Johnson

‘If an opera can have a “plot”, why not a song recital?’ asks Graham Johnson, who since Songmakers’ Almanac days...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 9/2006

O Duo

O Duo Percussion Ensemble

Have you ever wanted to hear Chopin’s Fantaisie-Impromptu played on the marimba? Here’s your chance, although you’ll have to accept...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 5/2007

Duos Romantiques

Brigitte Fassbaender | Cord Garben | Hidenori Komatsu | Kurt Moll

The principal attraction of this record is its inclusion of Liszt's O Meer im Abendstrahl, a rare and fascinating piece...

Reviewed in issue 9/1991

Cellophony: Vibrez!

Cellophony

Cellophony are a talented octet of young British cellists who for their second CD have put together a well-balanced programme...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 05/2014

Mendelssohn Piano Trios, Op. 49 & Op. 66

Fifty­five and a half minutes for a full­price CD is less than generous in terms of quantity. But quality is...

Reviewed in issue 9/2001

Horowitz in Concert

Vladimir Horowitz

After 12 years' absence, Horowitz's return to the concert platform in 1965, at the age of 61, not surprisingly had...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 11/1989

Martha Argerich & Friends: Live from Lugano 2014

Akane Sakai | Alexander Mogilevsky | Andrey Baranov | Anton Gerzenberg | Dagmar Clottu | Daniel Gerzenberg | Daniel Rivera | Dora Schwarzberg | Eduardo Hubert | Francesco Piemontesi

Even more than some years’ instalments, Lugano 2014 is a celebration not just of the inimitable Argentinian but also of...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2015

Epiphany at St Paul's

Huw Williams | John Scott | St Paul's Cathedral Choir

‘As with gladness men of old did the guiding star behold’: the best­known of Epiphany hymns is not in this...

Reviewed in issue 4/2002