Piano Works from the Husum Festival 2001

Alfredo Perl | Enrico Pace | Frédéric Meinders | Fredrik Ullén | Giovanni Bellucci | Kemal Gekic | Konstantin Scherbakov

Here is a lucky 13th disc from the ever-resourceful Schloss vor Husum Festival, dedicated to adventurous rather than conservative music...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 3/2003

Lieder recital

Hermann Prey | Leonard Hokanson

Two gentlemen who had nothing directly to do with the production of this record deserve some share in its success....

Reviewed in issue 6/1987

Benno Moiseiwitsch Solo Piano Recordings, 1938-50

Benno Moiseiwitsch

I find it almost impossible not to lapse into hyperbole when writing about Moiseiwitsch's playing; he appealed to both music-lover...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 9/1990

Mendelssohn-Hensel Fortepiano Works

These 12 pieces recalling a year spent in Italy are emphatically more than salon frippery. And while the influence of...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 5/1999

Songs Without Words

Julius Drake

Pianist Julius Drake spent many years occupied with solo piano repertoire and later achieved renown as one of the world’s...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW/2011

Toscanini conducts the Philadelphia Orch

Arturo Toscanini | E. Eustis | F. Kirk | Pennsylvania University Glee Club | Philadelphia Orchestra

In mid-1941 Toscanini temporarily fell out with the NBC Symphony Orchestra management, and during the following season directed the Philadelphia...

Reviewed in issue 6/1991

The Art of Segovia The HMV Recordings 1927-39

Andrés Segovia

By the time I first met Segovia in 1948 his pre-eminence in the field of the classic guitar was unquestioned...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 5/1989

Singing Cello

István Várdai | Julien Quentin

At first glance one might think that the title of this disc heralds a selection of songs transcribed for cello....

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2016

Miserere and Other Popular Choral Works

Richard Marlow | Trinity College Choir, Cambridge

The choir is at its absolute best here in Samuel Barber's arrangement of his famous Adagio for strings as an...

Reviewed in issue 2/1994

Angela Gheorghiu - Mysterium

Angela Gheorghiu | Ion Marin | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Romanian National Chamber Choir

The cover – if nothing else – is a collector’s item: the diva is pictured‚ superimposed on a fragment of...

Reviewed in issue 12/2001