History of the Russian Piano Trio, Vols 1-3 (The Brahms Trio)

Brahms Trio

These three discs recorded by The Brahms Trio are sure to make some listeners ask: ‘What is Russian in this...

Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 06/2021

Ashkenazy Duets

Vladimir Ashkenazy | Vovka Ashkenazy

What an enticing programme, with Ashkenazy Sr joined by his son Vovka for an all-French repast. One of the most...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 2/2010

Schumann Piano Works

Claudio Arrau | Vladimir Ashkenazy

When a world-famous artist comes to record a very familiar piano work I think it right that a reviewer such...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 8/1988

Vladimir Horowitz Piano Recital

Vladimir Horowitz

For Horowitz's DG debut on record, taken from the soundtrack of the film ''The Last Romantic'', microphones and cameras went...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 6/1986

PROKOFIEV Symphony No 5; STRAVINSKY Rite of Spring (Karajan)

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Herbert von Karajan

Karajan’s 1968 Prokofiev Fifth is a great performance. Whenever one compares it with later versions inevitably the DG account holds...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/2000

Schubert Piano Sonatas

Arcadi Volodos

Here is irrefutable proof of Arcadi Volodos’s genius and versatility. True‚ he has given us in his live recital from...

Reviewed in issue 6/2002

Beethoven/Dvorák Symphonies

London Symphony Orchestra | Pierre Monteux

Monteux once described Brahms as his ''love'' and his ''ideal'', and it is Brahms who most clearly emerges through this...

Reviewed in issue 4/1993

100 Years of the Concertgebouw

(Royal) Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam | Jo Vincent | Willem Mengelberg

In a conversation with the French musician and film-maker, Bruno Monsaingeon, in 1976, Glenn Gould remarked: ''Personally, I think that,...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 9/1989

Dvořák Rusalka

Ben Heppner | Charles Mackerras | Czech Philharmonic Orchestra | Dana Buresová | Dolora Zajick | Eva Urbanová | Franz Hawlata | Hannah Esther Minutillo | Iván Kusnjer | Kühn Mixed Choir

In Renee Fleming’s superb recital disc with Sir Georg Solti and the LSO (Decca, 10/97) the item which for me...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/1998

Between Worlds: Avi Avital

With mandolin players such as Avi Avital and Chris Thile doing such wondrous things with Bach et al, you might...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 02/2014