Murray Perahia plays Chopin

The Chopin anniversary year of 2010 understandably saw a maelstrom of Chopin recordings, making selection a tricky and subjective issue....

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 3/2011

Schumann Complete Lieder, Vol. 2

Graham Johnson | Simon Keenlyside

Two general points first: in his January “Quarterly” JBS touched on the fact that so many singers today, especially baritones,...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1998

Mozart Requiem

Francisco Araiza | Leipzig Radio Chorus | Margaret Price | Peter Schreier | Staatskapelle Dresden | Theo Adam | Trudeliese Schmidt

Instrumentalists often become conductors, and great ones; yet the number of singers who have successfully taken up the baton is...

Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 3/1984

BRAHMS Symphonies Nos 1 & 2 (Luisi)

Dallas Symphony Orchestra | Fabio Luisi

‘It will be intimate Brahms with a lot of grandeur, and this is what counts for me’, says Fabio Luisi...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2022

Wagner Edition Das Rheingold

Alison Browner | Anja Silja | Anna Reynolds | Anny Schlemm | Bayreuth Festival Chorus | Bayreuth Festival Orchestra | Bernd Weikl | Birgit Nilsson | Carmen Reppel | Cheryl Studer

This is part of a Richard Wagner Edition from Philips that also includes the complete (mature) oeuvre in video versions,...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1992

Karl Richter : Complete Recordings on Archiv Produktion and Deutsche Grammophon (97 CDs)

The summa totalis of Karl Richter’s DG recordings (from 1959 to 1980) affords us the greatest sense yet of an...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 02/2021

Shostakovich Piano Quintet; String Quartets Nos 7 & 8

Borodin Quartet | Sviatoslav Richter

From the very beginning of the Piano Quintet it is obvious that this is to be a performance on a...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 11/1985

Pizzetti Assassinio nella cattedrale

Anton Dermota | Christa Ludwig | Claude Heater | Edmond Hurshell | Gerhard Stolze | Hans Hotter | Herbert von Karajan | Hilde Zadek | Kurt Equiluz | Paul Schöffler

Assassinio nella cattedrale (1958) is the only Pizzetti opera to have been professionally staged in England though others have been...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 7/1998

Schubert Lieder

Gerald Moore | Hans Hotter | Michael Raucheisen

As I learnt Schwanengesang from the deeply satisfying reading of Hotter and Moore, I start with a natural prejudice in...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1994

WAGNER Der Fliegende Holländer (Sawallisch)

Bayreuth Festival Chorus | Bayreuth Festival Orchestra | Fritz Uhl | Georg Paskuda | George London | Josef Greindl | Leonie Rysanek | Res Fischer | Wolfgang Sawallisch

Clearly one of Wieland Wagner’s great New Bayreuth nights. Orfeo is to be congratulated on putting it out despite the...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 11/2018