Schubert Lieder

Edwin Fischer | Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

It is just slightly unfortunate that this recital should open with An die Musik, for it contains the one phrase...

Reviewed in issue 3/1992

Beethoven Edition, Vol. 4 - Leonore & Fidelio

Adolf Dallapozza | Alastair Miles | Alfred Sramek | Anna Reynolds | Antonio Madasi | Arno Schellenberg | Catarina Ligendza | Christa Ludwig | Christiane Oelze | Claudio Abbado

The 20-volume Complete Beethoven Edition with with which DG celebrate their own centenary has provided the opportunity for an overview...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 13/1997

Quadrants Vol 3

Altius Quartet

The third volume in Navona’s enterprising ‘Quadrants’ recordings of new music for string quartet gives voice to an intriguingly conservative...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 10/2019

Schubert on Record, Volume 1

Anonymous Pianist(s) | (Anonymous) Orchestra | Aaltje Noordewier-Reddingius | Aksel Schiøtz | Alexander Kipnis | Anthon van der Horst | Arpad Sándor | Artur Nikisch | Artur Schnabel | Benjamin Britten

Much has happened to the interpretation of Lieder since 1952, quite a bit since 1982 when this issue first appeared...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1997

Mozart Symphonies Vol.4

Having auditioned Vol 7 in Adam Fischer’s Mozart cycle (12/09), we know what to expect from him: characterful readings, sharp...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 1/2010

Brahms Hungarian Dances

Budapest Festival Orchestra

I haven't enjoyed a set of performances of the Hungarian Dances so much since I played them with the local...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 3/1987

Rachmaninov Symphony No 2; Vocalise

Budapest Festival Orchestra

When André Previn brought Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony back in from the cold during the 1970s others followed suit. Traditional cuts...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 8/2004

Dvorak Symphonies Nos. 8 and 9

Budapest Festival Orchestra

Back in the days of Talich and Toscanini‚ collectors might have been forgiven for suspecting that when it came to...

Reviewed in issue 10/2001

Mendelssohn Symphony no.3, etc.

Hungarian State Orchestra

Helped by recorded sound exceptionally full and immediate, Ivan Fischer conducts strong and dramatic readings of both symphony and overture....

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/1986

Hume Poeticall Musicke

Marianne Muller

Hume has belatedly become one of the viol player’s favourite composers (see the survey in my review of “Passion &...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 1/2011