(The) Trumpet that Time Forgot

Colm Carey | John Wallace

Originally conceived for brass band, Elgar’s Severn Suite of 1931 already exists in at least two alternative arrangements for symphony...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2004

Medtner Piano Works

Boris Berezovsky | Hamish Milne | Kenneth Sillito | Malcolm Latchem | Robert Smissen | Stephen Orton

Hamish Milne’s distinguished Medtner cycle commenced in 1977 but has recently taken wing‚ with this ninth volume quickly following Volume...

Reviewed in issue 13/2001

Bendix Complete Symphonies

Evgenyi Shestakov | Omsk Philharmonic Orchestra

2001 marked the 150th anniversary of Victor Bendix’s birth and the 75th of his death, yet neither occasioned much notice...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 2/2003

Pinchas Zukerman violin recital

Marc Neikrug | Pinchas Zukerman

Zukerman, predictably, joins those other splendid players who have made devastating gramophone collections of the favourite encore pieces. Devastating in...

Reviewed in issue 10/1986

Tchaikovsky Symphony No 2

Lorin Maazel | Mariss Jansons | Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra | Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra

Jansons here rounds off his outstanding Oslo series of Tchaikovsky's numbered symphonies for Chandos (Manfred still to come), while Lorin...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/1987

Beethoven; Weber Piano Sonatas

Emil Gilels

Here on two CDs is Emil Gilels, one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century (he was always high...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 1/2010

de Greef: The Complete Electric Solo and Concerto Recordings

The name of Arthur de Greef (1862-1940) is never mentioned in discussions of the so-called Golden Age defined by the...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2014

Prokofiev Orchestral Works

Neeme Järvi | Royal Scottish National Orchestra

This is a welcome appendix to the much (and rightly) acclaimed cycle of Prokofiev symphonies that Neeme Jarvi and the...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 1/1987

Steven Isserlis - Children's Cello

Simon Callow | Stephen Hough | Steven Isserlis

Here’s another way to present a ‘My First Recital’ type of programme. Steven Isserlis and Stephen Hough open with a...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 7/2006

Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto

Daniel Harding | Janine Jansen | Mahler Chamber Orchestra

You can anticipate something individual and special from the way that Janine Jansen insinuates herself into the first subject of...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 1/2009