Mahler Symphony No 6

Choong-Jin Chang | Christoph Eschenbach | David Kim | Efe Baltacigil | Philadelphia Orchestra

The Philadelphia Orchestra’s first recording of Mahler’s Sixth Symphony may well be the Sixth of first choice, sonically and interpretatively....

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2006

Mahler Lieder

Leonard Bernstein | Thomas Hampson | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

The loving, caressingly phrased orchestral accompaniments to Mahler's three great song-cycles—though the Ruckert Lieder scarcely count as a cycle—proclaim that...

Reviewed in issue 9/1991

RACHMANINOV Symphony No 2

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra | Tadaaki Otaka

Tadaaki Otaka is a Rachmaninov interpreter of no mean experience and insight – I for one recall with pleasure his...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2012

Loewe Lieder und Balladen, Volume 9

Christoph Prégardien | Cord Garben

Christoph Pregardien has many of the qualities called for by Loewe’s songs and ballads, and awareness of the demands made...

Reviewed in issue 13/1998

Brahms Songs Without Words

Mischa Maisky | Pavel Gililov

Although the profound soul-stirring that sits at the very core of the Sapphische Ode only partially translates to a solo...

Reviewed in issue 11/1997

Schubert Winterreise

Were there not a core of much-valued versions already available, this one would do very nicely as a general recommendation...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1991

Loewe Lieder und Balladen, Vol. 1

Andreas Schmidt | Cord Garben

To embark upon the complete performance of Carl Loewe’s Lieder and Ballads is an ambitious venture, as there are some...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1996

BARTÓK Concerto for Orchestra. Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra | Marin Alsop

Warmth and vitality are appropriate keywords for this coupling, a practical Bartók primer you might say, well played, persuasively interpreted...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2012

KHACHATURIAN. BARBER Violin Concertos

Kristjan Järvi | London Symphony Orchestra | Mikhail Simonyan

Mikhail Simonyan was born in Russia (his father is Armenian) but from the age of 12 spent much of his...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 02/2012

WOLF Orchesterlieder. Penthesilea

Benjamin Appl | Jena Philharmonic Orchestra | Simon Gaudenz

Hugo Wolf’s songs in their original piano versions are marvels of concision and compositional precision, but, as CPO’s long and...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW22