(The) Complete Victor and Electrola recordings - JuliaCulp

(Anonymous) Orchestra | (The) Orchestra | Coenraad V. Bos | Fritz Lindemann | Josef Pasternack | Julia Culp | Michael Raucheisen | Walter B. Rogers

‘And to learn to sing Lieder,’ said old-timers expatiating on the advantages of having lived in the early years of...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 9/2000

BRAHMS Complete Duets and Quartets

CPO’s complete Brahms song series started as long ago as the early ’90s, and the sessions for this release –...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2017

On Wings of Song

Elly Ameling | Michel Dispa | Rudolf Jansen

Ameling, in a note to this record, points out that this is a ''programme of songs you have heard me...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1989

Bruckner Symphony No. 3

(Royal) Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam | Nikolaus Harnoncourt

The Third Symphony with its three very different editions has always been one of the muddier Bruckner battlefields and it...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/1995

Heifetz Early Victor Recordings, 1917-18

André Benoist | Arpad Sándor | Arthur Rubinstein | Boston Symphony Orchestra | Jascha Heifetz | John Barbirolli | Josef Pasternack | London Philharmonic Orchestra | London Symphony Orchestra | Serge Koussevitzky

All the recordings listed above were made when Heifetz was still a young man, and they show that in his...

Reviewed in issue 1/1991

Dvorák/Elgar Cello Concertos

Adrian Boult | Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Cleveland Orchestra | Daniel Barenboim | Gerald Moore | Herbert Downes | Jacqueline du Pré | John Barbirolli | John Williams | London Symphony Orchestra

Here is buried treasure indeed. Issued to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Jacqueline du Pre's birth in 1945 – a...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/1995

Kathleen Ferrier – A Tribute

(Boyd) Neel Orchestra | Adrian Boult | Boyd Neel | Bruno Walter | David McCallum | Frederick Stone | Fritz Stiedry | Glyndebourne Festival Chorus | John Newmark | Kathleen Ferrier

This comes as a welcome pendant to the Ferrier commemorations, marking the 50th anniversary of her death. As I just...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/2003

Glenn Gould - Hereafter

Glenn Gould | Russell Oberlin | Yehudi Menuhin

Glenn Gould’s cult status makes it hard for the would-be objective critic, compelled to fight his way through a tangled...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2006

Beethoven Piano Sonatas

Bamberg Symphony Orchestra | Ferdinand Koch | Gaspar Cassadó | György Sándor | Hans Swarowsky | Ivry Gitlis | Jascha Horenstein | Jonel Perlea | Luxembourg Radio Symphony Orchestra | Michael Gielen

Budget-conscious collectors with a taste for musical adventure are already indebted to the American Vox company. At a time when...

Reviewed in issue 11/1993

Alexandre Tharaud: Autograph

Alexandre Tharaud

Alexander Tharaud’s ‘Autographs’ are a series of musical signatures very much ‘as you like it’; a programme to suit all...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 01/2014