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Shostakovich Piano Trios Nos 1 & 2; (7) Romances, Op 127

It would be nice to report that with Daniel Hope as violinist since 2002, the name of the Beaux Arts...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 1/2006

Backhaus plays Brahms, Chopin & Liszt

Nalen Anthoni’s perceptive appraisal of Wilhelm Backhaus’s art in ICRC (Summer 1997) quotes Abram Chasins who, in his...

Reviewed in issue 2/1998

Bowen Piano Works, Vol 4

Joop Celis’s survey (or is it now a cycle?) of York Bowen’s solo piano works remains consistent in the quality...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 6/2010

Stravinsky Pulcinella; Jeu de Cartes

Abbado conducts Pulcinella with a good deal of vigour, persuading his smallish group from the LSO to some very adroit,...

Reviewed in issue 1/1989

Maciejewski Requiem

It's hard to describe a virtually unknown composer's style without falling back on comparisons. So who does Roman Maciejewski's Requiem...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 9/1990

Ne me refuse pas

This is an attractive record and its appeal may well be felt before a note of it is heard. Many...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/2011

Dvorák Symphony No 9

Dohnanyi follows up the success of his brilliant and sympathetic account of the Dvorak Eighth Symphony (414 422-1DH, 2/86; CD...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/1986

Mahler Symphony No 8

These recordings date from between 1976 and 1982. They were made in a studio of the House of Artists in...

Reviewed in issue 12/1985

Grieg Orchestral Works

Grieg was at one time conductor of the orchestra in his home town, and it would be pleasing to report...

Reviewed in issue 9/1993

Schnittke Esquisses

Esquisses (“Sketches”) was a ballet based on a conflation of Gogol’s best-known stories, put on at the Bolshoi in 1975...

Reviewed in issue 6/1998

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