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Between Life and Death
Christoph Prégardien | Michael Gees
Music is the good friend that stands by in bad times as in good; and, if song can comfort, this...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/2010
Alfred Cortot plays Chopin
(Anonymous) Orchestra | Alfred Cortot | Jacques Thibaud | John Barbirolli | Pablo Casals
Has there ever been a more bewitching or endearing virtuoso than Alfred Cortot? His touch (an old-fashioned word but one...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/1992
Cecila Bartoli - Maria
Cecilia Bartoli | La Scintilla Orchestra, Zurich
No prima donna since Callas and Sutherland has excited such extreme reactions in audiences and critics as Cecilia Bartoli. This...
Reviewed by po'connor in issue: 7/2009
MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition (piano)
Beata Bilinska | Stephen De Pledge
Two new recordings of Pictures at an Exhibition offer differing perspectives of Mussorgsky’s frequently traipsed gallery. Generally Bilin´ska favours fast...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2012
Arthur Grumiaux – Original Maters
Although only released in Japan, Philips’s 78-CD Arthur Grumiaux Edition was in terms of its consistently high artistic standards the...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2003
Great Pianists - Moiseiwitsch, Vol 10
Benno Moiseiwitsch | Landon Ronald | Royal Albert Hall Orchestra
Vol 10 of Naxos's “Great Pianists” consists of 21 bonnes bouches with which the incomparable fi Moiseiwitsch enchanted his adoring...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 3/2007
Toscanini & the NYPSO 1926-36
Arturo Toscanini | BBC Symphony Orchestra | New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
Almost every non-vocal classical record collection in the 1930s included some of Toscanini's recordings with the Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra of...
Reviewed in issue 3/1990
Panis angelicus
Iain Simcock | James O'Donnell | Westminster Cathedral Choir
Sacred sweetmeats, liturgical lollipops, whatever the appropriate term might be, the majority of pieces here are readily likeable, short and...
Reviewed in issue 3/1994
The Merton Organ
All the main suspects are here: Bach, Franck, Vierne, Messiaen. Sometimes they pair up – the disc opens with Marcel...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 07/2014
Serendipity - Ad majorem Dei Gloriam
Jeffrey Howard | Serendipity | Tim Rhys-Evans
A superb disc and one whose contents are sure to receive plenty of exposure on Classic FM. And I am...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 3/2007
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