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Beethoven Piano Sonatas Nos 8-11

There are performances that take you through a familiar work as though you were hearing it for the first time....

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 9/1998

Schubert Chamber Works

The sonatina is well known, and deservedly so; the sonata and fantasy much less so. All respond very well to...

Reviewed in issue 4/1992

Schumann Lieder, Volume 5

It is nearly eight years since this Schumann song series was inaugurated, and the arrival now of Volume 5, though...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 4/2000

Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 3

Both these versions of the Rachmaninov Concerto have their plusses and minusses. Few interpreters on record have shown as much...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 5/1990

Jascha Heifetz - Studio Takes

For almost all his career Heifetz recorded for Victor and RCA. From 1942, however, the American recording industry was in...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 11/2006

Daugherty American Icons

Dead Elvis is an oddball amalgam of the Dies irae chant and what Elvis fans will know as It’s Now...

Reviewed in issue 13/1998

Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht; Strauss, R Metamorphosen

These two works‚ which frame almost half a century of cultural upheaval‚ have surprisingly seldom been coupled. Although the personnel...

Reviewed in issue 6/2002

Mahler Symphony No 4

Solti made his first recording of Mahler's Fourth Symphony (Decca 7BB178, 11/75) with the Concertgebouw Orchestra had made a legendary...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 7/1984

Mealor Stabat Mater

Born in St Asaph, North Wales in 1975, Paul Mealor (like the Con Anima Choir and other artists here) has...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 1/2010

Sergei Nakariakov - No Limit

What a wonderful trumpeter the young Sergei Nakariakov is! So beautiful is his tone, so naturally musical is his phrasing,...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 8/2000

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