David Daniels – A Quiet Thing

Craig Ogden | David Daniels

David Daniels has been wandering farther and farther from the Baroque fare that is the heart of a countertenor’s repertoire....

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 13/2003

Brahms Piano Quartet No. 2

Borodin Qt | Sviatoslav Richter

This Piano Quartet was written when Brahms was still in his twenties, but for the Viennese critic Hanslick it lay...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 10/1987

Mozart Piano Concerto No 27; Exsultate, jubilate; Piano Quartet, K478

Benjamin Britten | Cecil Aronowitz | Elly Ameling | English Chamber Orchestra | Kenneth Heath | Kenneth Sillito | Sviatoslav Richter

High among the most treasurable events in Britten’s time at the Aldeburgh Festival were invariably those in which he himself...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/1999

Sacred Songs

(Eric) Ericson Chamber Choir | Barbara Hendricks | Eric Ericson | Erik Lundkvist | Instrumental Ensemble | Orphei Drängar | Stockholm Chamber Orchestra | Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra | Ulf Johansson

It is difficult to know quite how seriously to take this disc of Chants sacres, recorded as it is by...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 4/1991

Schubert Symphony 9

Georg Solti | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Trevor Harvey greeted this in the warmest terms—and rightly so. As a performance it is quite glorious and can hold...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 3/1983

Schumann Szenen aus Goethes Faust

(La) Chapelle Royale Choir | Berlin RIAS Chamber Choir | Camilla Nylund | Champs-Élysées Orchestra, Paris | Christian Voigt | Collegium Vocale | Hans-Peter Blochwitz | Ingeborg Danz | Kristinn Sigmundsson | Louise Mott

Among the pleasures of a new recording of a seldom recorded piece – and what a piece, much of it...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 2/1999

JS BACH 'Nostalghia' (Francesco Piemontesi) 'Spira, spera' Transcriptions (Emmanuel Despax)

Emmanuel Despax | Francesco Piemontesi

The best piece of advice I ever got when starting out as a broadcaster was from the great Michael Oliver,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2021

Richter - The Enigma

Huddled against the cold, a frail-looking figure trudges the snow-laden Moscow streets, his steps accompanied by a world-weary but resolute...

Reviewed in issue 8/1998

Nicholas Angelich: Dedication

Nicholas Angelich

Nicholas Angelich’s new release, with its conceptual underpinning of Schumann’s work dedicated to Chopin, Chopin’s to Liszt and Liszt’s to...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 07/2016

Hindemith Nusch-Nuschi

Alejandro Ramirez | Andreas Schmidt | Berlin Radio Chamber Choir | Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra | Celina Lindsley | David Knutson | Gabriele Schnaut | Gabriele Schreckenbach | Georgine Resick | Gerd Albrecht

Cardillac is one of the most provoking and fascinating operas of its time; it is ferociously inventive and packs a...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 7/1989