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PADEREWSKI Piano Concerto STOJOWSKI Symphonic Rhapsody
Iuventus Orchestra | Jonathan Plowright | Lukasz Borowicz | Polish Sinfonia
Any new Jonathan Plowright recording is a cause for celebration, even more so when he brings to the catalogue a...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2017
Symphonic Roar: An Odyssey of Sound from the Paris Conservatoire
Brady Spitz | Collin Boothby | Yuri McCoy
The impetus for this debut album by Yuri McCoy was to celebrate the French Romantic organ and the gloriously rich,...
Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 05/2021
Ekaterina Sementchuk - Russian Songs
Ekaterina Sementchuk | Larissa Gergieva
‘Love has long offered me little consolation,’ the singer confides to the listening universe in tones of such majestic authority...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/2006
Horowitz Live from Carnegie Hall, 1940-1
John Barbirolli | New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra | Vladimir Horowitz
Yes, the pundits were right. This is the Rachmaninov Third to end all Rachmaninov Thirds, a performance of such super-human...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/1997
Peace - (A) Choral Album for Our Times
Grant Llewellyn | Handel and Haydn Society Chorus
Dismiss me as an old cynic if you like, but when I read that this disc contains ‘over one hour...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 6/2004
Baroque Reflections
I first heard Alessio Bax as a jury member at the 1997 Hamamatsu International Piano Competition in Japan, where he...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2004
Piano Recital by Duckachev
The Russian pianist Sergei Dukachev may not be a familiar name – although he has made numerous recordings for the...
Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 1/2003
A POOLE Sonata, Divisions & Dances
Anthony Poole (c1629-1692) is an obscure composer, no doubt of that. The catalogue of his works runs to over 300...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2016
The Romantic Cello
François-Frédéric Guy | Henri Demarquette
This cellist, Parisian and in his mid-twenties, is a strong and sensitive performer and his programme is well chosen and...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 4/1996
Richter plays Russian Piano Concertos
Antique sound-quality, variable pitch, out-of-tune pianos, occasionally sub-standard orchestral playing, and yet this is a must for connoisseurs of great...
Reviewed in issue 10/1990
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