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Heine Lieder
Andreas Staier | Christoph Prégardien
This is the third in what is turning out to be a magnificent series of Lieder recordings by this discerning...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1994
Ida Haendel plays Popular Encores
Geoffrey Parsons | Ida Haendel
Whenever I tune in to Ida Haendel without knowing who is playing I invariably sit transfixed until the radio announcer...
Reviewed in issue 8/2002
Schubert Piano Transcriptions
For this young Finnish prize-winning pianist to make his recorded début in so challenging and enterprising a programme is deeply...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 8/2003
Albert Spalding Archive Performances
Albert Spalding | André Benoist | Eugene Ormandy | Philadelphia Orchestra
Albert Spalding (1888-1953) was an American violinist who studied in Bologna and Paris and achieved a successful career before and...
Reviewed in issue 10/1992
Schubert: Complete Symphonies
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Daniel Barenboim
Sample this set at almost any point and you may be impressed by a warmth, a generosity of spirit and...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 9/1990
SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas
How does he do it? We all know Daniel Barenboim eats, sleeps and dreams music, but somehow he has found...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2014
Beethoven; Schubert Lieder
Alfred Brendel | Matthias Goerne
As Misha Donat reminds us in outstanding booklet essays, Schubert’s Schwanengesang divides clearly into eight Rellstab and six Heine settings;...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 7/2005
Beethoven An die ferne Geliebte; Schubert Schwanengesang lieder
Sir Ralph Kohn, born in 1927, businessman and philanthropist as well as dedicated musician, here tackles a formidable collection of...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/2011
Beethoven Diabelli Variations
Who among us would claim to have fathomed all the depths of the Diabelli Variations? The work has rightly been...
Reviewed in issue 12/1988
Alfred Brendel
Alfred Brendel | Julius Katchen
Here are two towering if sharply contrasted performances recorded in Paris in 1967 and 1970 set side by side in...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/2003
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