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Konstantin Krimmel: Saga
Doriana Tchakarova | Konstantin Krimmel
German ballads, with their supernatural 19th-century narratives and less-than-exalted reputation, might seem to be an odd starting point in the...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2019
SCHUMANN String Quartets. Piano Quintet
As musical birthday presents go, Schumann’s three string quartets vie with Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll – both were dedicated to the...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2024
Shostakovich Orchestral Songs, Vol. 2
Eléna Zaremba | Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra | Ilya Levinsky | Neeme Järvi | Sergei Leiferkus
Leiferkus has recorded nothing finer than this rightly daunting interpretation of the Suite on Verses of Michelangelo. Shostakovich’s greatest, most...
Reviewed in issue 1/1996
Brahms Lieder
''Was der Liebe wehe tut''—what causes pain to the lover, the last line of Brahms's Op. 57 No. 2—might almost...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1988
MENDELSSOHN Pianos Trios Nos 1 & 2
Is it just me, or are piano trios getting younger? The Hamlet Trio, whose Mendelssohn I reviewed a few months...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2016
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas, Opp 109-111 (Alexandre Tharaud)
Alexandre Tharaud is a musician of wide interests, as compelling in the Baroque as he is delightful in a favourite...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2018
BRITTEN Songs and Proverbs of William Blake
Iain Burnside | Roderick Williams
‘This music has the power to connect the avant-garde with the lost paradise of tonality,’ said Robin Holloway once about...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 06/2012
Brahms/Schubert/Schumann - Lieder
Friedrich Haider | Vesselina Kasarova
In the past two or three years Vesselina Kasarova has progressed from being a well-schooled young singer to a mature...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 5/2000
Beethoven Fidelio – highlights; Strauss, R (Der) Rosenkavalier – highlights
This double-disc of excerpts of two operas, given in 1959, derives from recordings made by the Royal Swedish Opera. They...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/2003
Rachmaninov Symphony No. 2
Lan Shui | Singapore Symphony Orchestra
Lan Shui took up the post of music director to the Singapore SO back in 1997 and on this evidence...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 7/2009
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