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Fantaisie Fantasme

One of the first things they teach you at music journo college is to acquire a healthy suspicion of concept...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 12/2007

R. Strauss: Horn Concertos etc.

Inevitably any recording of the two Strauss horn concertos comes up against the Dennis Brain/Sawallisch performances on EMI, but these...

Reviewed in issue 4/1990

Prokofiev: Songs

Some of the Op. 104 folk-songs were included on a Vishnevskaya recital for Philips some years ago, and way back...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 5/1987

Bach; Liszt Piano Works

Sixteen-year-old Lise de la Salle follows her earlier record of Rachmaninov and Ravel (8/03) with a richly enterprising recital of...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 8/2005

Prokofiev String Quartets Nos 1-2

Prokofiev’s chamber music is at last making an impact in the recital room yet remains curiously under-represented on disc given...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 3/2010

Shostakovich: Piano Works

Shostakovich's Three Fantastic Dances may not present much of an interpretative challenge, but both his sonatas demand really rather special...

Reviewed in issue 6/1990

Elgar Froissart; (The) Music Makers

The disc’s title, ‘Elgar: A Self-Portrait’, is no doubt intended to reflect the fact that The Music Makers has copious...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 13/2005

Frescobaldi - Harpsichord Works

This recording was made over 30 years ago‚ but you’d never have guessed it. At the time‚ Frescobaldi anthologies would...

Reviewed in issue 10/2001

Mahler Symphony No 2

The great Mahler Resurrection recording – and by that I mean, of course, the proverbial “library” choice – still eludes...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 4/2011

Rags and Tangos

Few are left who will actually remember ragtime as an ebullient piano-style popular music of their youth. Many more will...

Reviewed in issue 4/1992

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