Schubert Schwanengesang

Norman Shetler | Siegfried Lorenz

Here is yet another of the new generation of Lieder artists recorded by Capriccio. Lorenz, although he is already 43...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1987

CHERUBINI Les Abencérages (Vashegyi)

Ágnes Pintér | Anaïs Constans | Artavazd Sargsyan | Douglas Williams | Edgaras Montvidas | György Vashegyi | Lóránt Najbauer | Orfeo Orchestra | Philippe-Nicolas Martin | Purcell Choir

Who, or what, are Les Abencérages, you might well ask. There’s a clue in the subtitle, which is ‘The Standard...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 01/2023

Pour passer la Melancholie

Andreas Staier

‘…pour passer la mélancolie’ is harpsichordist Andreas Staier’s engaging survey of a complicated collection of affects and gestures that seem...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 05/2013

Imaginées - Cello and piano works

Jeanne Kierman Fischer | Norman Fischer

Alongside more familiar French music, this issue offers new repertory, or repertory in an unfamiliar context, such as the cellist's...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 9/1991

Fasch; Müller; Telemann - Lustige Feldmusik

I cannot say for sure how many first recordings there are on this disc but the chances are that you...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 5/2011

Ruzicka String Quartets

Arditti Qt | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

At just over 50, Peter Ruzicka is a prominent figure in German musical life, as administrator as well as composer....

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 9/1999

Heifetz plays Beethoven & Brahms Concertos

Boris Belkin | Boston Symphony Orchestra | Charles Munch | Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Fritz Reiner | Jascha Heifetz | London Symphony Orchestra

You may think that Reiner starts the opening tutti at an extraordinarily quick speed—until you remember that he is going...

Reviewed in issue 9/1985

BRAHMS Symphonies and Overtures

Cleveland Orchestra | Franz Welser-Möst | Julia Fischer | Yefim Bronfman

In the heyday of George Szell’s tenure as its chief conductor, The Cleveland Orchestra had few if any peers among...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 01/2016

Bartok Piano Rhapsodies; Violin Concerto No 1

Barnabás Kelemen | Budapest Festival Orchestra | Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra | Zoltán Kocsis

The Hungarian National Philharmonic under the leadership of Zoltán Kocsis has provided Hungary with a first-rate ensemble to rival Iván...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 9/2008

F & F MENDELSSOHN A Midsummer Night’s Dream (excs)

Anna Lucia Richter | Barbara Kozelj | Budapest Festival Orchestra | Pro Musica Women’s Choir, Nyíregyháza

‘Humans like this music. It entertains them’, Iván Fischer writes, with quizzical humour, in a booklet note for his recording...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2018