Anthony Rolfe Johnson: Recital at La Monnaie

Anthony Rolfe Johnson | Graham Johnson

We are lucky that Anthony Rolfe Johnson left such a durable legacy of recordings, but new additions are still welcome....

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 02/2016

Sviatoslav Richter plays Beethoven Sonatas, Vol 1

Sviatoslav Richter

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 8/1998

Beethoven Symphony 6/Schubert Symphony 8

André Cluytens | Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Andre Cluytens (1905-67) was never an especially individual interpreter of the music he conducted, but he understood how the old...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 7/2000

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No 16. Eroica Variations SCHUBERT Wanderer Fantasy

Aaron Pilsan

Described as ‘a rising star’, the 19-year-old Austrian pianist Aaron Pilsan has surely already risen, and it is greatly to...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 01/2015

Albert Tiefland

Alice Oelke | Angelika Fischer | Berlin RIAS Chorus | Berlin Symphony Orchestra | Ernst Krukowski | Gerd Feldhoff | Hans Zanotelli | Isabel Strauss | Ivan Sardi | Karl-Ernest Mecker

Tiefland is German verismo with a disconcerting flavour of operetta to it. The plot is melodramatically gamy (evil baritone Sebastiano...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 2/1989

Wagner Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Adolf Keil | Bavarian State Opera Chorus | Bavarian State Opera Orchestra | Benno Kusche | Claire Watson | David Thaw | Franz Klarwein | Friedrich Lenz | Georg Wieter | Hans Bruno Ernst

This performance marked the occasion of the opening of the rebuilt Nationaltheater in Munich following its destruction in the war....

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1990

Wagner Das Rheingold

Astrid Varnay | Bayreuth Festival Chorus | Bayreuth Festival Orchestra | Bruni Falcon | Brünnhilde Friedland | Clemens Krauss | Erich Witte | Erika Schubert | Erika Zimmermann | Gerhard Stolze

A couple of years ago, when I was at Bayreuth the American critic John Ardoin boldly declared to me that...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1988

Emmanuel Feuermann - Recital

Emanuel Feuermann | Gerald Moore | Myra Hess | Paul Hindemith | Szymon Goldberg | Theo Van der Pas

Feuermann's early death in 1942 at the age of 39 was undoubtedly a severe blow to the world of music....

Reviewed in issue 5/1992

Fritz Wunderlich Lieder Recital

Fritz Wunderlich | Hubert Giesen

Wunderlich would have been 60 this year. Listening to this disc reminded me anew what we had grievously lost by...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1990

Handel Keyboard Suites, Vol. 1

Andrei Gavrilov | Sviatoslav Richter

Even by Sviatoslav Richter’s Tours Festival standards 1979 was a red-letter year. Then, partnered by his dazzling young compatriot Andrei...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/1996