Schoenberg: Choral & Orchestral Works

Bratislava Philharmonic Choir | Günter Reich | Heinrich Schiff | Michael Gielen | South West German Radio Symphony Orchestra

This record could be billed as 'The Many Faces of Arnold Schoenberg'. Orchestral and choral, tonal and atonal, neo-classical and...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/1990

Beethoven; Weber Piano Sonatas

Emil Gilels

Here on two CDs is Emil Gilels, one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century (he was always high...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 1/2010

Brahms Violin Sonatas

Daniel Barenboim | Pinchas Zukerman

Playing for just over 72 minutes, this single CD is an eminently sensible extraction from a 1975 Zukerman/Barenboim Brahms boxed...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 9/1986

Schubert Piano Sonatas, D575/894/959/960

Alfred Brendel

For some years now Brendel’s discography has been enriched by occasional releases of recorded live performances – correctives, alternatives or...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 3/2001

British Tuba Concertos

Gavin Sutherland | James Gourlay | Royal Ballet Sinfonia

A tuba concerto is no laughing matter. While one may imagine a solo turn around the usual clichés of Tubby...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 4/2006

Schubert Winterreise

András Schiff | Peter Schreier

This issue completes, and does so rewardingly, Schreier's recordings of the three great Schubert cycles. A pity Decca have kept...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1994

Still Music of the Spheres

Phantasm

The odd juxtaposition of Byrd’s very finest chamber music with pieces by Richard Mico may seem rather like pairing late...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 13/1998

Trionfi!

The music on this disc was composed and performed in Florence, the city of Brunelleschi and Botticelli, the place which...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 7/1994

Puerta de Veluntad

Alia Musica | Miguel Sánchez

The ancient musical tradition of the Iberian Jews occupies a significant place in the history of Spanish culture‚ a place...

Reviewed in issue 11/2001

Salieri Falstaff

(La) Grande Ecurie et La Chambre du Roy | (Les) Chantres de la Chapelle de Versailles | Hjördis Thébault | Jean-Claude Malgoire | Liliana Faraon | Nigel Smith | Pierre-Yves Pruvot | Raimonds Spogis | Salomé Haller | Simon Edwards

Falstaff, ossia I tre burle (‘Falstaff, or the three pranks’) is the full title: one more prank, then, than Verdi....

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 6/2003