Revisions: Earl Wild Piano Transcriptions (Vittorio Forte)

Earl Wild’s piano transcriptions, direct descendants of those by Liszt, Busoni, Rachmaninov and Godowsky, are now in the repertoire of...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue:

John Ogdon – The Complete RCA Album Collection

John Ogdon | Sergey Rachmaninov

RCA/Sony Classical’s six-CD album of John Ogdon’s complete RCA Red Seal recordings plus an additional Liszt recital from Japan coincides...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 08/2014

Impromptu

Finghin Collins

In a market overrun with ‘classical piano’s greatest hits’ compilations, I envision cynical reviewers tossing their unopened copies of ‘Impromptu’...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 13/2005

Sibelius/Prokofiev Violin Concertos

Frank Peter Zimmermann | Mariss Jansons | Philharmonia Orchestra

It's a complicated business, listening—but often it's not until problems begin to arise that you realize how complicated it is....

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 7/1992

Russian Spectacular (Singapore Symphony Orchestra)

Lan Shui | Singapore Symphony Orchestra

Surely here was an opportunity to stray a little from the well-trodden path and offer perhaps Mussorgsky’s startling original version...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 07/2021

Borodin Prince Igor

Bolshoi Theatre Chorus | Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra | Mark Ermler

As with the opera itself, so with this recording: the defects must be got out of the way if one...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/1996

GLUCK Orohée et Euridice (Mariotti)

Christiane Karg | Fatma Said | Hofesh Shechter Company | Juan Diego Flórez | Michele Mariotti | Orchestra of the Academy of the Teatro alla Scala | Teatro alla Scala de Milan

On August 2, 1774, Gluck presented Orphée et Euridice at the Paris Opéra. It was an expanded version, now called...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 05/2019

Mozart Violin Concertos Nos 1-5; Symphony No 39

Leonidas Kavakos | Salzburg Camerata

As in his woefully attended late-night Prom with the Salzburg Camerata this summer, Leonidas Kavakos reveals himself as a lucid,...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2006

Toscanini Collection, Vol.41

Arthur Rubinstein | Arturo Toscanini | Carlton Cooley | Frank Miller | Jascha Heifetz | NBC Symphony Orchestra

Toscanini's 1953 recording of Dvorak's Ninth Symphony is everything you would expect it to be: fierce and cogent but with...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 1/1991

SAINT-SAËNS Organ Symphony. Carnival of the Animals

Antonio Pappano | Daniele Rossi | Martha Argerich | Santa Cecilia Academy Orchestra, Rome

Saint-Saëns’s Organ Symphony and The Carnival of the Animals are rarely paired together on disc. Hugely different in scale, they...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2017