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Follow Goethe - Lieder after poems by Goethe
Christoph Prégardien | Michael Gees
Not in so many words perhaps, but to roughly similar effect, this review might have begun with a summary such...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 13/1999
Beethoven/Schubert String Quartets
With this performance, the Hagen Quartet seem resolved to provide argument refuting facile suggestions of Op. 135 as ''a reversion...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 6/1992
BEETHOVEN Piano Works
In 2000 BBC Legends released Sviatoslav Richter’s all-Beethoven recital of June 11, 1975, from the Aldeburgh Festival featuring three Bagatelles...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2013
Sviatoslav Richter Piano Recital
Whenever pianists or piano-buffs get to talking about Liszt it is not long before Richter's recording of ''Feux follets'' is...
Reviewed in issue 6/1988
Vienna State Opera Live, Vol.21
This is a curate’s egg of a volume, the good bits very good indeed, the rest indifferent in either musical...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1996
Beethoven Piano Sonatas
Here, significantly and intriguingly, is Pollini in the early (1973) and later (2002) stages of his career, and while he...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/2003
Salonkonzert
Eric Hoeprich | Konrad Hünteler | Melvyn Tan | Michel Garcin-Marrou
This is an attractive programme of the familiar and not-so-familiar that does not quite come off in performance. At the...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1990
Beethoven Symphony No 3; Schubert Symphony No 8
Bratislava Radio Symphony Orchestra | Michael Halász | Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra
Julian Steckel, winner of many prizes, has studied under Heinrich Schiff, among others, and has also been principal cellist of...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/2011
Beethoven Cello Sonata; Schubert String Quintet
Pablo Casals | Végh Quartet | Wilhelm Kempff
A remarkable, but unfortunately a deeply flawed performance of the Schubert. The fly in the ointment is Casals. Quite apart...
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 11/1988
Beethoven Symphony No. 5. Schubert Symphony No. 8
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra | Wilhelm Furtwängler
I never heard Furtwangler at a concert. This was certainly by chance and not intention; but it does mean that...
Reviewed in issue 9/1985
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