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Brahms Lieder

The depth of this remarkable voice is rich-toned as ever, so that the Sapphic Ode is a night-piece of the...

Reviewed in issue 11/1997

Faire is the Heaven

On the face of it this is a collection of familiar hymns and anthems sung by the choir of a...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 9/2004

Brahms Piano Concerto No 1; Hungarian Dances for Piano Four Hands

If you're drawn to weighty, full-throated, hearty, dark and occasionally angst-ridden Brahms First Concerto interpretations along the lines of Buchbinder/Harnoncourt,...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 6/2008

Kernis Strin Quartets Nos 1 & 2

I reviewed Kernis’s First String Quartet six years ago (6/93) and noted then his fluent and easy access to different...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 11/1999

Beethoven: Orchestral Works

''In music that calls for a touch of demon or virtuosity, such as Beethoven's Symphony No. 7,'' says John Holmes...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 10/1990

Salieri Falstaff

Salieri’s version of Falstaff, to a libretto by Carlo Prospero Gianfranceschi, has as subtitle Le tre burli, “the three jokes”:...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 6/1998

Schnittke; Shostakovich Cello Sonatas

A cleverly devised programme‚ much of it in‚ around or actually ‘about’ its C major­minor ton­ality. Competition in Schnittke’s First...

Reviewed in issue 13/2002

Richard Strauss conducts Beethoven

When Strauss entered the studio in early 1926 to conduct Beethoven's Seventh Symphony he had already made a number of...

Reviewed in issue 10/1992

Elgar/Musgrave Orchestral Works

I feel impossibly churlish to criticize what I’m sure must have been an unforgettable experience for all involved, but to...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 7/1998

Spirit of Brazil

If, like me, you usually find anything more than two classical guitars a transgression of good taste and a guitar...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 5/2009

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