Reimann Complete Piano Works

Aribert Reimann is most renowned for the adventurous spirit of his operas and for his “day job” as a Lieder-accompanist...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 3/2008

Mahler Lieder

Doris Soffel | Eliahu Inbal | Vienna Symphony Orchestra

On its own account, putting comparisons aside, these are attractive propositions. Soffel has an individual, tangy mezzo, which she uses,...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1995

Schoeck Notturno

Bochmann Qt | Ian Caddy

Like his slightly younger compatriot Frank Martin, Othmar Schoeck enjoys the allegiance of the few rather than the acclaim of...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 12/1986

Brahms 4 Ernste Gesänge etc

José Van Dam | Maciej Pikulski

I found myself, frankly, bored by this recital. As ever van Dam sings strongly and with unimpeachable taste, but where...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1996

SHOSTAKOVICH Six Romances. Suite on Poems by Michelangelo

Gerald Finley | Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra | Thomas Sanderling

Shostakovich’s songs continue to lag behind the rest of his output in terms of their representation on recordings and in...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 07/2014

Schubert Lieder

What new can one say about the Protean achievement enshrined in this essential reissue? One stands amazed again before the...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1993

Mahler Das Lied von der Erde

Cornelia Kallisch | Michael Gielen | Siegfried Jerusalem | South West German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Baden-Baden and Freiburg

Here are two performances that, when placed side by side, shed little light on each other (why should they?) but...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 8/2011

Alfred Brendel plays Liszt & Schumann

Academy of St Martin in the Fields | Alfred Brendel | Bernard Haitink | Charles Mackerras | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Neville Marriner | Scottish Chamber Orchestra

It was a miserably dank autumn Sunday afternoon in London. And on that day in October 1962, a stern, bespectacled...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 3/2006

Lieder with Orchestra

Daniel Barenboim | Orchestre de Paris | Waltraud Meier

The most gratifying part of this CD comes at the very end, Meier and Barenboim give an almost unbearably intense...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1990

Bartók Piano Concertos

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Hélène Grimaud | Krystian Zimerman | Leif Ove Andsnes | London Symphony Orchestra | Pierre Boulez

It’s interesting that for Pierre Boulez, Bartók’s Third Piano Concerto is ‘the Cinderella of the family’, and doubly interesting given...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 4/2005