Heifetz in Performance

Brooks Smith | French National Orchestra | Jascha Heifetz

''The ocean is constantly changing; it never stays the same. '' So says the consistently charismatic Jascha Heifetz about his...

Reviewed in issue 7/1995

À la russe

Alexandre Kantorow

There are half a dozen encores, or quasi-encores, here that proclaim an outstanding young artist at work – least predictably...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 07/2017

BERNSTEIN On the Waterfront. West Side Story dances

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

A compendium of popular and streetwise Lenny for Bernstein 100 – and the virtuoso trombonist in Christian Lindberg surely gives...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2018

Russian Arias, Vol. 2

Ambrosian Opera Chorus | Gennady Rozhdestvensky | Philharmonia Orchestra | Sergei Alexashkin

Over this recital, successor to Chandos’s record of arias in the Russian tenor heritage (5/98), shines the steady light of...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 9/1998

CHOPIN Etudes SCHUMANN Symphonic Etudes

Valentina Lisitsa

Two new sets of Chopin Etudes from two Russians. They’re presented quite differently, Lev Vinocour gravely introduced as ‘a rare...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2015

The Beautiful Voice

English Chamber Orchestra | Jeffrey Tate | Renée Fleming

Sweet tooth, prepare for action. What does Lamb say in his Chapter on Ears? Something about piling honey upon sugar...

Reviewed in issue 3/1998

SCHUMANN Complete Symphonic Works, Vol 1

WDR Symphony Orchestra

Right from the off, things augur well. The Spring Symphony’s opening Andante un poco maestoso is also, usefully, con moto,...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2013

Bartók; Piazzolla; Scott, A - Dances

A fine follow-up to the equally dance-oriented “Spirit of Brazil” (5/09), “Dances” sees young UK ensemble the Aquarelle Guitar Quartet...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 10/2010

Mark Reizen (1895-1992) - I

Alexsander Melik-Pashayev | Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra | Mark Reizen | Nikolai Golovanov | Samuel Samosud | Vassily Nebolsin

Glorious singing here by one of the great basses of the century. There can never have been a steadier voice,...

Reviewed in issue 12/1992

Cameron Carpenter: If You Could Read my Mind

Bespangled organ shoes, tight jeans, a (clean) vest, a retro Mohican and a touch of mascara. How different to the...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2014