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Beethoven Piano Sonatas, Vol 1

Kun-Woo Paik starts a Beethoven cycle for Decca with mixed results. On the plus side, his muscular, energetic pianism suits...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2005

Wagner Overtures & Preludes

Glorious sound here: rich, warm and spacious. There is refined detail, too, partly the result of the conductor's care both...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/1991

Borodin; Rachmaninov; Shostakovich Cello Sonatas

Who is going to turn up their noses at 82 and a half minutes of Russian cello-and-piano classics, delivered with...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 8/2011

Maxwell Davies Concertos for Piano and Piccolo. Maxwell's Reel.

Peter Maxwell Davies has written more concertos than most, but this is his first for the most popular of all...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 12/1998

Beethoven Quintet for Piano & wind Instrument; Hindemith Sonata for Horn & Piano

The mono recordings here are variable. The Beethoven Piano and Wind Quintet is distant and subfusc, and not ideally balanced,...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 5/2005

English 18th-Century Keyboard Concertos

You will notice rather a lot of 'recons.' or 'arr.' in the heading. That is because in eighteenth-century England, when...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 8/1994

Debussy (12) Études

Pascal Rogé begins Debussy’s First Etude promisingly. He shapes the left-hand “five-finger exercise” in an appropriately plodding manner and plays...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2010

Opera Scenes-Renée Fleming

Here’s a singer who has reached complete maturity as a singer and artist, revelling in her vocal and interpretative powers....

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1997

Leighton Complete Cello Chamber Works

The programme spans more than three decades, the earliest item being the Elegy, Op 5, from 1949. It’s a seven-minute...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2011

Liszt Piano Works

Leonid Kuzmin is a 29-year-old Russian pianist whose hair-raising facility remains sadly uncomplemented by musical insight or discipline. Coyly introduced...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 5/1994

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