Annie Fischer Recital

Annie Fischer

Few pianists have found a more direct path to poetic truth than Annie Fischer. Blessedly free of all attitudinising or...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 3/2001

Sacred Music from Venice and Rome

(The) Sixteen | Harry Christophers | Laurence Cummings | Robin Jeffrey

In these days of thematically-planned programmes and historical reconstructions the selection of pieces on this record seems a little random....

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 10/1993

60th Anniversary Issue Commemorating Geraldine Farrar

Takemitsu is an instrumental colourist of great accomplishment, and I was accordingly a little sceptical about the possible limitations of...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 4/1995

Mozart Don Giovanni

Alessandro Guerzoni | Alexandrina Pendatchanska | Berlin RIAS Chamber Choir | Freiburg Baroque Orchestra | Johannes Weisser | Kenneth Tarver | Lorenzo Regazzo | Nikolay Borchev | Olga Pasichnyk | René Jacobs

“In a way, Don Giovanni is the least known of the Da Ponte operas,” avers René Jacobs in the booklet....

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 13/2007

Chopin Sonata No 3

With this disc Nikolai Lugansky (for his one-time mentor Tatiana Nikolaieva “the next one” in a line of great Russian...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 9/2010

Bach Organ Chorales

Christopher Herrick

Having already given us the complete Orgel-Buchlein (Hyperion, 8/95) Christopher Herrick now turns his attention to three further chorale prelude...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 8/1996

Vienna State Opera Live, Vol. 4

Alexander Kipnis | Alexander Sved | Alfred Jerger | Anne Michalsky | Bella Paalen | Bruno Walter | Carl Bissuti | Esther Réthy | Friedrich Ginrod | Georg Monthy

The name of Bjorling tops the bill here, Sigurd as well as Jussi. Compatriots and contemporaries (born within a few...

Reviewed in issue 12/1994

Shostakovich Chamber Works

Jens Harald Bratlie | Oslo Trio | Tchaikovsky Trio

Shostakovich's E minor Trio is a masterpiece, and a surprisingly direct one at that—it's much easier to grasp at first...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 10/1988

Romantic Music for Piano Duet

Harvey Dagul | Isabel Beyer

The Daguls are obviously engaged on a mission to bring the pleasures of duet music to listeners, where here and...

Reviewed in issue 11/1987

Debussy: Orchestral & Chamber Works

Alfred Cortot | Eugéne Ginot | Jacques Thibaud | Lily Laskine | Marcel Moyse | Maurice Maréchal | Maurice Viard | Piero Coppola | Robert Casadesus | Symphony Orchestra

The performances of the three late sonatas by Debussy presented here were all recorded within 15 years of the works'...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 9/1990