SCHUBERT Die schöne Müllerin (Gerhaher)

Christian Gerhaher | Gerold Huber

While Christian Gerhaher’s 2003 recording of Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin doesn’t have English translations of the poem texts (RCA, 2/04),...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 12/2017

Schubert Schwanengesang

I recall Luxon giving this cycle with great success in London's Queen Elizabeth Hall a couple of seasons back. What...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1989

BRAHMS Die schöne Magelone

Christian Gerhaher | Gerold Huber

Though recorded periodically and treated as a cultural touchstone in German-speaking countries, Brahms’s Die schöne Magelone still leaves seasoned English-speaking...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2017

STANFORD ‘Cushendall – Irish Song Cycles’

Benjamin Russell | Finghin Collins | Sharon Carty

Top billing on the booklet cover of this latest and most welcome Stanford release from Somm goes to the 1910...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2024

SCHUBERT Der Einsame

Ilker Arcayürek | Simon Lepper

The ever-increasing tenor population in the Schubert song discography reaches a peak of sorts with Ilker Arcayürek’s intelligently conceived recital, executed...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: AW17

TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto. Fantasies (Guy Braunstein)

BBC Symphony Orchestra | Guy Braunstein | Kirill Karabits

‘Why compose violin and orchestra rhapsodies after Tchaikovsky’s opera and ballet music?’ asks Guy Braunstein in his booklet note to...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2019

Brahms; Mahler; Schubert; Schumann Songs (Meinders Piano Transcriptions)

Frédéric Meinders

This warm and affectionate recital takes up the cudgels on behalf of the art of transcription. Songs by Schubert, Schumann,...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/2009

Beethoven Lieder & Volkslieder

Barbara Hendricks | Love Derwinger

On the face of it this looks an attractive proposition: an enterprising conspectus of Beethoven songs, including a clutch of...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2009

Frederic Lamond - Beethoven Recordings, Vol. 1

Eugene Goossens | Frederic Lamond | Royal Albert Hall Orchestra

‘Historical’ recordings usually fit one of two categories, those that are so artistically exceptional that they transcend period musical manners...

Reviewed in issue 8/1998

BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos Nos 1-5 (Ronald Brautigam)

Cologne Academy | Michael Alexander Willens | Ronald Brautigam

Ronald Brautigam’s first recording of Beethoven’s piano concertos, a collaboration with Andrew Parrott and the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, appeared in...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2020