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Bach Cantatas Vol 15

Still relishing the rich fruits of Bach’s prolific first year in Leipzig (1723)‚ Masaaki Sukuki brings us four more fine...

Reviewed in issue 2/2002

Cortot plays Chopin

Nobody but a reviewer, of course, should try to listen to either of these issues straight through: it would be...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 4/1987

Mahler Symphony No 6

This is the first CD version of Mahler's Sixth Symphony. It makes a big, robust sound, less refined than the...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/1985

Schubert: Trios and Notturno

This is a spacious view of Schubert's music for piano trio. The Fontenay Trio are a gifted ensemble of young...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 1/1989

Beethoven Symphonies Nos 4 and 8

Listening to these bright, effervescent but by no means lightweight performances, the first word that sprang to mind was “sane”....

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 1/2007

Bach Brandenburg Concertos

Sir Adrian Boult's unashamedly old-fashioned, but immensely enjoyable set of Brandenburgs dates from the early 1970s. After the invigoratingly robust...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 5/2000

Schubert Piano Sonatas

On the face of it‚ Jenö Jandó has taken his time over Schubert. At least‚ his Schubert recordings have been...

Reviewed in issue 4/2002

Lili Kraus in Recital

When I was a boy, I had a Parlophone 78 which greatly appealed to me of Lili Kraus playing Beethoven’s...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 8/2006

Mozart/Schubert Chamber Works

“The Schubert of this quintet is not the great Schubert, but the one whom we cannot help but love.” Pertinent...

Reviewed in issue 1/1996

Hummel Piano Concerto in A; (Le) Retour à Londres

Howard Shelley adds to his formidable list of recordings of long-neglected Hummel works, three of them concertante pieces for piano...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/2006

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