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Dvorák Symphonies 6 & 8

Here’s a classy companion disc to this same partnership’s outstanding coupling of Dvorak’s Third and Seventh symphonies (also on DG,...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 8/2000

Leonard Pennario - (The) Early Years

MSR Classics’ four-CD tribute to the early career of Leonard Pennario celebrates a pianist whose star shone brightly for more...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/2007

The Complete Johanna Gadski, Vol 2

So, another of the great ones has been 'done', her rarities traced, alternative versions included, with every note that can...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/1999

Gay/Britten The Beggar's Opera

''Not a 'sport' among Britten's operas but an integral part of the totality of theatrical work, from Paul Bunyan to...

Reviewed in issue 9/1993

R. Strauss Symphonia Domestica & Parergon

With Karajan’s opulent 1973 recording (4/74) currently unlisted and Kempe’s available only in a three-disc box, there is no automatic...

Reviewed in issue 11/1996

Dickinson Piano Concerto. Organ Concerto

Two of the main preoccupations of Peter Dickinson's ingenious and entertaining Piano Concerto are the co-existence of 'popular' and 'serious'...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 8/1986

Berkeley, L & M Piano Works

This is another landmark in the Chandos Berkeley Edition but, even more, it offers some of the finest piano music...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 12/2004

Argerich Recital

This is the first release from the Verbier Festival to benefit from the new semi-permanent structure with acoustic panels for...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 13/2011

Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time

The main virtues of the Fibonacci Sequence are emotional concentration, attention to detail and – thanks to a first-rate recording...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/2009

Gieseking plays Mozart

Mozart for meat-eaters. Stylistically archaic this may be (particularly the orchestral playing), but Gieseking’s approach gives these large-scale concertos due...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 2/2000

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