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BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas, Op 109-111 (Sunwook Kim)
A word of warning: don’t start with the booklet. ‘The tessellated masonry [of the Kunstkraftwerk in Leipzig] allows music to...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2021
Busoni Doktor Faust
‘Sooner or later there must be a new recording of Doktor Faust’, declared MEO, welcoming the CD reissue of the...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/1999
Matthias Goerne: Schubert Revisited
Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, Bremen | Matthias Goerne
As Schubert’s posthumous fame grew, his most popular songs – which usually meant those published in his lifetime – received...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2023
Beethoven Sonata No 15, 'Pastoral'; Schubert Sonata No 21
Much as I revere this wonderful pianist, I cannot in all honesty say these performances show her in the best...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 3/2010
Schubert (Die) Schöne Müllerin
Christian Gerhaher | Gerold Huber
Only last March I praised another young baritone, Jochen Kupfer, in this cycle. That was a full-price version of this...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/2004
Schubert Complete Lieder, Vol.26
Christine Schäfer | Graham Johnson | John Mark Ainsley | London Schubert Chorale | Richard Jackson
As this ‘Schubertiade’ is a wondrous addition to this unique venture, it is hard to know where to begin in...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1996
Schubert Songs without Words
The paradox here is that the main item – or, rather, the longest work on the disc and the only...
Reviewed in issue 11/1996
Schubert Die schöne Müllerin
With the galaxy of distinguished versions by the baritones and their equally distinguished pianists listed above, forgetting for a moment...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1995
SCHUBERT Goethe Lieder
To call this a disc of simple pleasures is to do it a disservice, yet it is the apparent straightforwardness...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 10/2015
J & M Haydn Orchestral Works
Adám Fischer | Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra | István-Zsolt Nagy
Michael Haydn, Joseph's younger brother and the Mozarts' Salzburg colleague, is a seriously underrated composer. His talent falls short of...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 8/1993
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