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BRUCKNER Symphony No 7

There are those who attend the opening of this piece as they might the opening of Parsifal – slowly, hieratically....

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 01/2013

BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No 1. KUHLAU Piano Concerto Op 7

Kuhlau was not the luckiest man on earth. He lost an eye in childhood, had to escape over the border...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2013

BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 5 & 7

So palpable is the excitement of these live performances that it almost comes as a shock that the applause has...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 01/2013

BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 1-9

If Haydn spoke his last word on the symphony in 1795, Beethoven’s First five years later is no mere extension...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 01/2013

CPE BACH Keyboard Concertos

It must have been a touch galling for Miklós Spányi, as he prepared to record these four works for Vol...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2013

JS BACH Harpsichord Concertos Nos 1, 4, 6 & 7

The brightness and rightness of the sound is what strikes you immediately about this new recording of four of Bach’s...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2013

JS BACH Brandenburg Concertos

There is much documentary evidence about Bach’s day-to-day dealings but not much of it biographical, no diaries and few reflections...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 01/2013

Alexander Ghindin plays Rachmaninov, Stravinsky & Tchaikovsky

Alexander Ghindin’s novel debut album (Ondine) consisted of Rachmaninov’s First and Fourth Concertos partnered by Ashkenazy and given in their...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 01/2013

SCHUBERT Moments Musicaux. Piano Sonata, D850

You never know what to expect from Valery Afanassiev. One year it’s the most lifeless Beethoven concerto cycle on disc,...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2013

RACHMANINOV Solo Piano Recordings Vol 3

For many, Rachmaninov was the greatest of all pianists, and here in Ward Marston’s magnificent transfers he is at last...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 01/2013

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