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Rachmaninov Piano Recital

Andreas (still in his twenties) is the son of the long renowned Ernst Haefliger. Though he has already recorded some...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 10/1992

Barber/Dvorák/Glass String Quartets

It was an imaginative idea to flank Dvorak's Czech-flavoured, turn-of-the-century view of the American outdoors with a pair of twentieth-century...

Reviewed in issue 1/1994

(The) Castle of Fair Welcome

With the issue of the fourth record by Hyperion of Gothic Voices, it becomes easy to see some of the...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 11/1986

Langgaard Music of the Spheres; (4) Tone Pictures

Fitful though they have been, Chandos’s issues devoted to the works of Rued Langgaard (1893-1952) have been especially welcome for...

Reviewed in issue 9/1997

Chopin: Piano works

Another splendid digital remastering, with tone even fuller, richer and more immediate than before. For Pogorelich fanciers, anxious to pursue...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 5/1985

Rachmaninov Piano Trios

Rachmaninov’s two Trios elegiaques have drawn several good recordings. These include the Copenhagen Trio on Kontrapunkt (12/94), together with the...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 1/2001

Beethoven Piano Concerto No 2. Bruckner Symphony No 4, 'Romantic'

Klaus Tennstedt’s 1981 Berlin recording of Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony (EMI, 2/83) is no longer available but this superb live account...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 2/2011

Brahms Tragic Overture; Schumann Symphony o 2; strauss, R Don Juan

Perhaps it is a sign of advancing years but after hearing just eight bars of this performance of Brahms’s Tragic...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/2005

Dillon (The) Soadie Waste

The 27-year period covered by this group of compositions, taking James Dillon from his mid-twenties to his early fifties, could...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 13/2008

Janácek Glagolitic Mass; Taras Bulba

When Mackerras recorded the Glagolitic Mass on CD for Chandos (12/94) it was with Danish Radio forces. Powerful as that...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/2005

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