Mozart Così fan tutte

Anna Bonitatibus | Berlin Staatskapelle | Berlin State Opera Chorus | Daniel Barenboim | Daniela Bruera | Dorothea Röschmann | Franz Welser-Möst | Hanno Müller-Brachmann | Javier Camarena | Katharina Kammerloher

In recent years the action of the opera Thomas Beecham once described as a “long summer day spent in a...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2010

Wolfgang Holzmair : The Philips Recitals

As this welcome 70th-birthday retrospective reminds us, Austrian baritone Wolfgang Holzmair’s voice is surely one of the most immediately recognisable...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2022

WAGNER Parsifal (Heras-Casado)

Andreas Schager | Chor und Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele | Derek Welton | Elina Garanca | Georg Zeppenfeld | Jordan Shanahan | Pablo Heras-Casado | Tobias Kehrer

While Wagner’s final opera traditionally commands the best from the greatest musicians of any era, the visual presentation of Parsifal...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 10/2024

Schubert Piano Sonata, D960; Fantasy, D760

Alfred Brendel | Clifford Curzon | Maurizio Pollini | Vladimir Ashkenazy

Schubert at his most philosphical and Schubert at his most virtuosic is hardly a combination to be taken at a...

Reviewed in issue 8/1987

Barbirolli - Victor Recordings

John Barbirolli | New York Philharmonic Orchestra

This issue not only offers further evidence of the notable standards achieved by John Barbirolli during his New York Philharmonic...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 9/1998

Schubert/Schumann Piano Works

Vladimir Horowitz

Some readers may have already heard and seen this Kinderszenen, for it comes from a recital given by the 83-year-old...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 10/1991

Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition

Sviatoslav Richter

Occasionally one hears performances in the concert hall which create a haunting and indelible memory sadly unrecorded. That is until...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2002

Schubert/Schumann Symphonies

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Nikolaus Harnoncourt

“I think of it as one of the greatest symphonic poems” said Harnoncourt of Die schone Melusine in an interview...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 5/1996

Remembrance

Huw Williams | John Scott | St Paul's Cathedral Choir

Choral director John Scott writes that of all recent events held in St Paul’s none has been ‘as poignant and...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 12/2003

Rachmaninov/Prokofiev Piano Concertos

Stanislaw Wislocki | Sviatoslav Richter | Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra | Witold Rowicki

We're constantly meeting Richter in the role of deeply searching musician. So how refreshing to have this reminder of his...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 6/1985