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Nemanja Radulović: Baïka
'Baïka’ is the French transliteration of the Serbian ‘bajka’, meaning ‘tales’. It is the title of the Franco-Serbian violinist Nemanja...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2019
Mahler Symphony No. 1
Manfred Honeck | Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Still they come, despite what the much-missed critic Michael Oliver would have slammed as “an insane overproduction”. These latest Mahler...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 13/2011
German Songs by American Composers
Armen Guzelimian | Thomas Hampson
This is a fascinating collection of Lieder, all written by these American composers before the age of 30. Very few...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 4/1992
Bach Feast of the Purification of Mary
The latest recording in Gardiner’s Bach Cantata Pilgrimage celebrates works written for the Feast of the Purification which falls on...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2000
JS BACH The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2 (Piotr Anderszewski)
Piotr Anderszewski here poses a most intriguing question: what happens when you take a group of 12 Preludes and Fugues...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2021
SAINT-SAËNS Symphony No 3. Urbs Roma (Kantorow)
Jean-Jacques Kantorow | Liège Philharmonic Orchestra
By all rights, Urbs Roma should be Saint Saëns’s Second Symphony – or even, if one counts the delightfully precocious...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2021
SCHUBERT Schwanengesang (Ian Bostridge)
Rest assured that Ian Bostridge is not nearly as wizened, and the late Lars Vogt wasn’t nearly so eagle-eyed, as...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2022
Schubert String Quartets, Vol. 2
The A minor Quartet is notable for its songfulness, its moderate tempos and its avoidance, till the last movement at...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 5/1998
Schubert Complete Lieder, Vol. 5
Elizabeth Connell | Graham Johnson
God as depicted in Nature is the main theme of this absorbing recital, the fifth in the fast-growing Hyperion Schubert...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1990
Schubert: Orch Arrangements of Chamber Works
There have been some extraordinary statements about Mahler's string orchestra version of Schubert's D minor String Quartet: talk of 'revolutionary'...
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 3/1991
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