Brahms (Ein) Deutsches Requiem

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Dorothea Röschmann | Simon Rattle | Thomas Quasthoff

This is a lovely performance, sensitive to the work’s consolatory mood, free-moving and sweetly sung. There is much to be...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 5/2007

Mahler Song Cycles

Anne Sofie von Otter | Pierre Boulez | Thomas Quasthoff | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra | Violeta Urmana

Boulez is the focal point of this new DG recording, unlike the comparative versions listed where the singers take centre...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 3/2005

Brahms Double Concerto

Aki Saulière | Béatrice Muthelet | Gautier Capuçon | Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra | Myung-Whun Chung | Paul Meyer | Renaud Capuçon

Within months of the acclaimed new recording from Julia Fischer and Daniel Muller-Schott, here’s a very fine reading of Brahms’s...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 2/2008

WOLF Complete Songs Vol 7

Anna Huntley | Benjamin Hulett | Birgid Steinberger | Marcus Farnsworth | Sholto Kynoch

Hugo Wolf’s Spanisches Liederbuch has been recorded by many of the great Wolf singers. But this youngish, lesser-known foursome have...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2014

Bach Sonatas and Partitas

Gidon Kremer

Are a beautiful sound and a warm, singing tone as important to you as intelligent, stylish interpretation in Bach’s Sonatas...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 1/2006

Schumann Lieder, Vol. 3

Inger Södergren | Nathalie Stutzmann

Stutzmann remains a thoughtful, intensely musical interpreter of Lieder, and her dark-hued contralto is a voice with appreciable overtones that...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1997

Mahler Symphony No 1

Bernard Haitink | Chicago Symphony Orchestra

You can glean something of Haitink’s approach to music-making from the way he marks up his scores. Or rather doesn’t...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 7/2009

Bartók (The) Miraculous Mandarin, Op. 19

Bournemouth Symphony Chorus | Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra | Marin Alsop

Marin Alsop’s Miraculous Mandarin can claim among its virtues stealth, colour and energy. In the famous and furious fugato passage...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 6/2005

MAHLER Symphony No 1 (Vänskä)

Minnesota Orchestra | Osmo Vänskä

It may well be that more of the score is audible here than ever before. What’s lacking is less easily...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 10/2019

MAHLER Symphony No 9 (Jansons)

With a Mahler tradition stretching back to the days of Rafael Kubelík, it was probably inevitable that this great orchestra...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2017