The Bohemians, Volume 6

Lindsay Qt | Peter Frankl

One of the most successful aspects of Frankl and the Lindsays' performance of Dvorak's Quintet is their sensitivity to the...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 6/1994

CHOPIN; SCRIABIN; YASHIRO '72 Preludes' (Mao Fujita)

Mao Fujita

Reporting on the 2019 Tchaikovsky Competition in the August issue of International Piano that year, James Jolly hailed silver medallist...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: AW2024

Music of the Americas

Andrés Orozco-Estrada | Houston Symphony Orchestra

‘The common denominator in all of these works is the rhythm which is highly articulated, flexible and energised’, writes Andrés...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2018

Beethoven Violin Sonatas Nos 6, 8 and 10

Adila Fachiri | Donald Tovey | Fritz Kreisler | Jenö Léner | Louis Kentner | Sergey Rachmaninov

Though issued as Volume XIX of Symposium’s ‘The Great Violinists’ series, this CD is equally interesting as a record of...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 3/2004

Lucia Popp sings Slavonic Opera Arias

Lucia Popp | Munich Radio Orchestra | Stefan Soltesz

Lucia Popp is so versatile an artist that one tends to forget that she has her nationalist roots, having been...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/1989

Piano Works for the Left Hand

Leon Fleisher

Even before Paul Wittgenstein expanded the repertoire of piano music for the left hand alone, there was a wealth of...

Reviewed in issue 10/1993

Schumann Kreisleriana; Prokofiev Piano Sonata No 2

Alexander Kniazev | Bertrand Chamayou | Boris Berezovsky | Christian Ivaldi | David Fray | Dmitri Makhtin | Eliso Virsaladze | Frank Braley | Iddo Bar-Shai | Jean-Claude Pennetier

All five DVDs celebrate René Martin’s La Roque d’Anthéron Piano Festival, founded in 1980 in the heart and, judging by...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2005

PFITZNER; SMETANA Works for Piano Trio

Vienna Schubert Trio

The belated issue of recordings by the Wiener Schubert Trio, after Schubert (8/11) then Chausson, Debussy and Rachmaninov, continues with...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2023

Vesselina Kasarova: Russian Arias

Despite moves into heavier roles in recent years (Eboli, Dalila and Carmen), the Bulgarian mezzo-soprano Vesselina Kasarova is still better...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2016

Simon Trpčeski

Simon Trpceski

This is Simon Trp∂eski’s first mixed recital disc since his acclaimed debut album for EMI in 2002 (8/02), the first...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2013