Schubert Piano Sonata No 21

Ikuyo Kamiya

To a greater extent than almost any other keyboard masterpiece, Schubert’s B flat Sonata has been recorded by the very...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/2009

Scarlatti Family Cantatas & Sonatas

Kai Wessel | Musica Alta Ripa

Like many Neapolitan families, the Scarlattis were a numerous clan. Alessandro, the most famous composer of operas and vocal music...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 8/1997

Wagner Tannhäuser

Alfred Reiter | Berlin Staatskapelle | Berlin State Opera Chorus | Daniel Barenboim | Dorothea Röschmann | Gunnar Gudbjörnsson | Hanno Müller-Brachmann | Jane Eaglen | Peter Seiffert | René Pape

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/2002

Lang Lang Dragon Songs

Chen Shasha | China Philharmonic Orchestra | Fan Wei | Ji Wei | Lang Lang | Wu Yuxia | Yu Long | Zhang Jiali

Lang Lang has a knack for building interesting programmes, none more personal, perhaps, than his latest release. It encompasses a...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 3/2007

Marx Chorus and Orchestra Works

BBC Symphony Chorus | BBC Symphony Orchestra | Christine Brewer | Jirí Belohlávek | Trinity Boys' Choir

The most substantial work in this selection of Joseph Marx’s orchestral songs and choral pieces is the Herbstchor an Pan...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 3/2010

Andrew Kennedy sings Berlioz, Gluck and Mozart

Andrew Kennedy | Simon Over | Southbank Sinfonia

The line Gluck-Mozart-Berlioz is an enterprising one to follow, not previously (I think) staked out by tenors in recital discs....

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/2010

Grieg Orchestral & Vocal Works

Kåre Bjørkøy | London Symphony Orchestra | Oslo Philharmonic Chorus | Per Dreier

Unicorn-Kanchana have already put us in their debt with the complete Peer Gynt music (RHS361-2, 4/79) and a recording of...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 8/1984

Elias (The) Prayer Cycle

If the classical crossover movement has produced some wonderful cultural fusions, it has also bred the cynicism that classical music...

Reviewed by kmulhall in issue: 11/1999

Rossini Complete Piano Edition, Vol 3

Marco Sollini | Paolo Giacometti

The third volume of Marco Sollini’s eight-part survey of the piano volumes of Rossini’s Sins of Old Age is given...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 1/2007

Sibelius Piano Trios Vol 1

Folke Gräsbeck | Jaakko Kuusisto | Marko Ylönen | Satu Vänskä

All the works for piano trio gathered here were written between 1883-86, prior to Sibelius’s composition studies under Martin Wegelius...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 2/2004