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Elisabeth Schumann sings Brahms/Schumann Lieder
Here is one of those simultaneous issues that are almost bound to mean bad luck for someone. On this occasion...
Reviewed in issue 1/1996
Beethoven Symphony No. 7
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Thomas Beecham
A letter in the May edition expresses amazement at Gramophone’s ‘hysterical adulation’ of Beecham recordings, and while it...
Reviewed in issue 7/1999
Great Conductors of the 20th Century - Sir Thomas Beecham
Sir Thomas Beecham’s sensuous, glowing, yet highly ebullient 1951 performance of Antar is unsurpassed, and with his thrilling account of...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 5/2004
Violin Transcriptions by Heifetz
Hideko Udagawa | Pavel Gililov
It is interesting to compare Heifetz's transcriptions with those of Kreisler. Whereas the latter was an accomplished composer, whose original...
Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 12/1988
The Original Budapest Quartet
The Budapest Quartet spanned the best part of half a century from the First World War to well into the...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 3/1990
St Paul's Cathedral - The Grand Organ
If I were asked to suggest pieces least suited for a recording on the St Paul's organ I think the...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 2/1994
Beloved Clara
With her customary initiative, Lucy Parham commissioned the music journalist (now also novelist) Jessica Duchen to compile a programme of...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 8/2007
Faire is the Heaven
Noel Edison | Paul Halley | St John's Choir, Elora
On the face of it this is a collection of familiar hymns and anthems sung by the choir of a...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 9/2004
DEBUSSY String Quartet, Op 10. Premier Trio
Here are the first fruits of the Brodsky Quartet’s 40th-anniversary alliance with Chandos: an original and revealing Debussy coupling and...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 06/2012
(A) Romantic Songbook
Justus Zeyen | Thomas Quasthoff
On this generous offering, Thomas Quasthoff presents his many admirers with a cornucopia of pleasurable, intelligent music-making in a judiciously...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/2004
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