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Lines of Life: Schubert & Kurtag
Benjamin Appl | Csaba Bencze | Gergely Lukác | James Baillieu | Pierre-Laurent Aimard
‘Lines of Life’ would serve well as the title for a programme consisting entirely of Hölderlin settings. But the actual...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 03/2025
Von Einem Der Prozess
What a cast for the first night of a new opera! Austria’s leading dramatic tenor in the title-role, della Casa...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 2/1996
Mozart Die Zauberflöte
There’s virtually nothing new under the sun. In its crisp, swift and precise speeds and articulation, and the slim sound...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1998
Prokofiev Piano Sonata No 7; Schubert Piano Sonata No 19
Here is one of those legendary concerts that will have pianophiles slavering at the mouth: a great artist at the...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 3/2010
Schubert; Schumann Piano Works
Schubert composed his A minor Sonata, D784, in 1823, the year in which he learnt he was suffering from an...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2007
Wolf Lieder
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf | Wilhelm Furtwängler | Wilhelm Furwängler
An incomplete tape of this recital from the 1953 Salzburg Festival first surfaced and was released by EMI in 1969....
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 4/2001
Wolf Lieder Recital
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf | Gerald Moore
''A blissful experience of the purest lied art'' (''zu einem begluckenden Erlebnis reinster Liedkunst'') reported the Salzburger Nachrichten. I should...
Reviewed in issue 10/1993
Bartók Piano Concertos
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra | Peter Donohoe | Simon Rattle
Making Bartok's First Piano Concerto sound fun must have taken some doing, but Donohoe and Rattle have certainly managed it....
Reviewed in issue 11/1993
Lieder and Song Recital
Peter Schreier | Wolfgang Sawallisch
Sometimes a recording comes along that puts in the shade all recent listening. Such a one is Schreier's latest account...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1990
Bartók Violin Concerto No. 2; Rhapsodies Nos. 1 & 2
Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Gil Shaham | Pierre Boulez
The constituent parts of this carefully considered production include a velvet-toned solo line, fastidious instrumental balancing, fine orchestral playing and...
Reviewed in issue 6/1999
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