Beethoven Piano Concertos 1 & 2

Here‚ on three (separately available) CDs‚ are Solomon’s legendary 1952­56 recordings of the Beethoven Piano Concertos and two Mozart Piano...

Reviewed in issue 3/2002

Haubenstock-Ramati Graphic Music

Eberhard Blum | Iven Hausmann | Jan Williams

While cynics will apply the adage about graphic scores looking better than they sound, it would be wrong to overlook...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 8/1998

Donizetti Lucia di Lammermoor

Ambrosian Opera Chorus | Anthony Laciura | Cheryl Studer | Fernando de la Mora | Ion Marin | Jennifer Larmore | Juan Pons | London Symphony Orchestra | Plácido Domingo | Samuel Ramey

Lucia di Lammermoor has 11 recordings in the current catalogue, and this makes a highly distinguished twelfth. There are certain...

Reviewed in issue 4/1993

Julie Andrews sings Richard Rodgers

Ian Fraser | Julie Andrews | London Musicians Orchestra

The RADA-style diction, the distinctive timbre, the irony implied by a phrase spoken here and there, the whisper to give...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 1/1995

Schnabel plays Bach & Brahms, Vol.2

Adrian Boult | Artur Schnabel | BBC Symphony Orchestra | George Szell | Karl Ulrich Schnabel | London Philharmonic Orchestra | London Symphony Orchestra

I enjoyed Schnabel's Bach performances on both these discs very much. The two solo pieces have serenity, lucidity and communicate...

Reviewed in issue 2/1991

Obrecht Missa Maria Zart

Peter Phillips | Tallis Scholars

This is a bizarre and fascinating piece: and the disc is long-awaited, because The Tallis Scholars have been planning it...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 3/1996

Karajan: Encore!

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Herbert von Karajan

''Encore'' is a doubly appropriate title for Karajan has recorded all these pieces before in stereo. Not more generously, however,...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 1/1985

Zelenka Requiem; Miserere

Benjamin Hulett | Fiori Musicali | Fiori Musicali Choir | Grace Davidson | His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts | James Bowman | Penelope Rapson | Simon Whiteley

The Bohemian musician Jan Dismas Zelenka wrote some exceptional church music for the Catholic court chapel at Dresden across a...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 3/2008

Liszt/Schumann/Brahms Piano Works

Artur Pizarro | Martha Argerich

Artur Pizarro is the young Portuguese virtuoso who garnered first prizes at Leeds, Lisbon and Florida and, predictably, his Liszt...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/1993

From the Kitchen Archives, Volume 4

Bill Viola | David Tudor | John Driscoll | Linda Fischer | Marsha Harris | Martin Kalve | Phil Edelstein | Takehisa Kosugi

Composers Inside Electronics was a collective founded by pianist-turned-electronic music guru David Tudor in 1973. These vivid slices of the...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 2/2008