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Schubert Piano Works
No keyboard aficionado would have difficulty in guessing, in a musical quiz, who this pianist is—and chiefly because of Arrau's...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 5/1992
Richter from the Archives - Chopin
Here is Richter ‘from the archives’ in 1950, aged 35, offering invaluable evidence of his early astounding range and mastery,...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 9/2003
Schubert Arpeggione Sonata; Schumann Kinderszenen
Håvard Gimse | Henning Kraggerud
Comparing the “excellent” 1993 Fuzeau facsimile edition of the Arpeggione Sonata with modern Urtext editions has, writes Henning Kraggerud, “been...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 1/2011
Schubert Piano Sonatas, D575/894/959/960
For some years now Brendel’s discography has been enriched by occasional releases of recorded live performances – correctives, alternatives or...
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 3/2001
Schubert/Schumann Symphonies
Günter Wand | North German Radio Symphony Orchestra
If Harnoncourt's Schubert is a nervous athlete hurrying among ghostly forerunners of a darker age, Wand's is a healthy bearer...
Reviewed in issue 2/1994
Canciones españolas - Carreras
When this record first emerged exactly 12 years ago as part of Brendel's projected album covering Schubert's last six years,...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1985
Schubert Piano Sonatas
There can't be many less showy pianists on today's concert scene than Andras Schiff. That very refusal to draw attention...
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 10/1994
Gervase de Peyer Recital
Gervase de Peyer | Gwenneth Pryor
This is a record largely of arrangements or alternatives, but it is none the worse for that since all of...
Reviewed in issue 4/1987
Haydn Piano Concerto in D; Schubert Symphonies Nos 6 & 8
Günter Wand’s years with the Gürzenich Orchestra of Cologne, lasting from the Second World War up to 1974, predate those...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 1/2005
Schubert Symphonies Nos 8 & 9
Charles Mackerras | Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Sir Charles’s ‘discovery’ of the autograph score’s alla breve marking for the Ninth Symphony’s introduction and his other textual concerns...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 2/1999
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