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Schumann Dichterliebe and other Heine settings
In close collusion with the ever-sentient Julius Drake, Gerald Finley gives one of the most beautifully sung and intensely experienced...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2008
Beethoven Piano Sonatas 4, 22, 23 & 25
The Appassionata comes up first and the E flat Sonata, Op 7, last in the tracking, presumably because the Appassionata...
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 2/2001
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 4
This unusual and refreshing coupling presents François-Frédéric Guy as both soloist and chamber musician. First appearing on disc in brilliantly...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/2009
Lebrun Oboe Concertos, Vol 2
Bart Schneemann | Jan Willem de Vriend | Radio Chamber Orchestra
Bart Schneemann’s first disc of oboe concertos by Ludwig August Lebrun (1752-90) was an unexpected delight (7/01), and now comes...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2004
Beethoven Piano Sonatas
Frank Braley is a 30yearold French pianist who won first prize in the 1991 Queen Elisabeth International Piano Competition and‚...
Reviewed in issue 2/2002
Beethoven Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1
There is much to praise here. Louis Lortie manages to make the first movement of the Pathetique grandly heroic without...
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 4/1992
Richter plays Russian Piano Concertos
Antique sound-quality, variable pitch, out-of-tune pianos, occasionally sub-standard orchestral playing, and yet this is a must for connoisseurs of great...
Reviewed in issue 10/1990
The Original Budapest Quartet
The Budapest Quartet spanned the best part of half a century from the First World War to well into the...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 3/1990
Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 5
Andreas Delfs | John O'Conor | London Symphony Orchestra
Beethoven’s Second and Fifth Concertos make for an uncommon yet attractively contrasted CD coupling. More importantly, pianist John O’Conor and...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 13/2007
Beethoven: Overtures
Klaus Tennstedt | London Philharmonic Orchestra
Dramatic, positive performances, very much of the concert hall rather than the opera house—for instance the trumpet call in Leonora...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/1984
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