DEMSKE Journey for One (after Schubert's Winterreise)

The unwary might assume that Hilary Demske’s latest album is a transcription or reworking of Schubert’s great song-cycle, omitting the...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2021

Crudo Amor

Forma Antiqva

If the music of Agostino Steffani is no longer a complete unknown (thanks largely to the efforts of Cecilia Bartoli...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 06/2016

Brahms Complete Lieder, Volume 2

Andreas Schmidt | Helmut Deutsch | Juliane Banse

This second volume of the Brahms Lieder edition on CPO brings us to the heart of the composer's song output....

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 6/2000

Bach (Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier I

Andreï Vieru | Sverre Larsen

Edwin Fischer set the ball rolling in the 1930s and for many years his recording of the ‘48’ was the...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 4/2006

Czerny Works for Horn and Piano

Barry Tuckwell | Daniel Blumenthal

Carl Czerny was an immensely prolific composer, with over 1,000 works published, including 24 Masses, four requiems, symphonies, chamber music...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 9/1992

Humperdinck Dornröschen

Bavarian Radio Chorus | Bavarian Radio Orchestra | Brigitte Fassbaender | Christina Landshamer | Kristiane Kaiser | Tobias Haaks | Ulf Schirmer

Having honed his musical style while assisting Wagner on Parsifal at Bayreuth, Engelbert Humperdinck applied it primarily to composing fairy-tale...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 5/2011

Mendelssohn Piano Trios Nos 1 & 2

Alexander Kniazev | Boris Berezovsky | Dmitri Makhtin

There’s a fine line between a characterful performance and one where the composer’s personality is subsumed by that of the...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 3/2008

Telemann Flute Quartets

Cologne Musica Antiqua | Reinhard Goebel

‘Flute quartets’? Well, yes; they are all quartets in the sense of being for three melody instruments and basso continuo,...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2005

Bach Sonatas and Partitas

Richard Tognetti

At first sight, the Australian violinist Richard Tognetti might seem to be making a strange compromise between modern and Baroque...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 10/2006

Bach - (A) Strange Beauty

For her Sony Classical debut release, Simone Dinnerstein returns to Bach, whose Goldberg Variations helped hoist the pianist into the...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 2/2011