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Katharina Wolpa plays Beethoven, Schubert and Berg
Wolpe’s cool unfolding of Berg’s dauntingly concentrated Piano Sonata has its merits, though her playing is not notable for finesse...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 8/1999
Beethoven Piano Sonatas Opp110 & 111
Stephen Kovacevich’s EMI recordings of Beethoven’s last two sonatas (2/04) were marked by their breadth, colour, and improvisatory spirit. These...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 4/2006
Souvenirs de Venise
The Songmakers afloat in their gondola bob up and down in triple or compound time and one wonders whether the...
Reviewed in issue 7/1984
Beethoven Symphony No 5. Schubert Symphony No 8
Lorin Maazel | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
The rule that CD exposes weaknesses as well as merits in the original master recording comes out very clearly here....
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/1983
Beethoven/Schubert - String Quartets
This latest Hagen Quartet disc provides inspiring confirmation of how great music constantly renews itself. That ‘perennial newness’ is evident...
Reviewed in issue 9/1999
Beethoven An die ferne Geliebte; Schubert Schwanengesang
Anna Tilbrook | James Gilchrist
The by-now familiar initial reaction to the sound of Gilchrist’s singing on record has still, I find, to be confronted...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/2010
Duo Stephanie & Saar: Cavatine
The late Leon Fleisher encouraged Stephanie Ho and Saar Ahuvia to explore Beethoven’s string quartets in four-hand arrangements for performing...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2021
Neil Mackie sings Britten
Neil Mackie's recording of Britten's Serenade—''not important stuff, but quite pleasant'' was how the composer described this masterpiece in 1943!—is...
Reviewed in issue 12/1988
Sunlight on the Garden
A delightful anthology on gardening, in which (after the opening from Haydn's Serenade) each spoken piece is followed by music...
Reviewed by mpostgate in issue: 12/1992
SCHUBERT; GRIEG; SIBELIUS Songs
Miah Persson | Richard Hosford | Roger Vignoles
For all of her vocal cultivation, personal magnetism and musical intelligence, Miah Persson seems not to be a born recitalist:...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 08/2012
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