Replay (December 2024): Edith Peinemann, The French Piano School, Géza Anda & Kolisch String Quartet
Rob Cowan’s monthly survey of historic reissues and archive recordings
He’s cultivated and urbane. David Zinman coasts along feeling no undercurrents within No 5. For him, Schubert remains the teenager...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 03/2013
From the very first bars of Saint-Saëns’s First Cello Concerto you sense that this disc is going to be exhilarating...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 03/2013
While it must be acknowledged that ominous, despondent images of mortality haunt The Isle of the Dead, this performance of...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 03/2013
Prokofiev’s violin concertos have been strongly represented on disc since the mid-1930s when Joseph Szigeti and Jascha Heifetz took up...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2013
Paganini’s Fifth Concerto, the last he composed, is preserved only in the form of a solo part, which, however, contains...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 03/2013
Despite the best efforts of Yehudi Menuhin in championing Mendelssohn’s Concerto in D minor, the youthful work has never caught...
Reviewed by K Smith in issue: 03/2013
Over the years there have been a number of recordings in various guises from Korngold’s incidental music to Much Ado...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 03/2013
Most of the one-movement concerto-rhapsodies Aram Khachaturian manufactured in the 1960s are less familiar than the concertos he composed for...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2013
Conceived in conjunction with a summer 2012 installation at London’s Science Museum, the Philharmonia’s ‘Universe of Sound Holst The Planets’...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 03/2013
Haydn’s first symphonies for his new employer, Prince Paul Anton Esterházy, form a group of three for which the Germans...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2013
Rob Cowan’s monthly survey of historic reissues and archive recordings
Tim Ashley hears the first instalment in a reissue of Joan Sutherland’s complete recordings
Mark Pullinger enjoys a survey of the ever-youthful tenor’s EMI recordings
Rob Cowan listens to sets of Bruckner and Schubert symphonies, plus a pair of pianists
David Gutman revisits the British conductor’s recordings with two major orchestras
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