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Debussy Piano Works

The Parisian-born Georges Pludermacher, 50 this year, has recorded a variety of music from Mozart to Brahms and Bartok, but...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 3/1995

Emma Renzi - A Tribute

I wonder how many bells start to ring if I say ‘Emmerentia Scheepers’. She sang for some years with the...

Reviewed in issue 2/1999

Haydn (The) Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross

Critic Eduard Hanslick was disparaging. He described Haydn’s Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross as an “empty, insignificant...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 8/2009

Schubert Complete Symphonies

The three LP shown above of Schubert's early symphonies have already been praised in these columns, which leaves me free...

Reviewed in issue 2/1985

Benjamin, A Chamber Works

When the chamber music of Arthur Benjamin is so poorly represented on disc‚ this wide­ranging survey is very welcome indeed....

Reviewed in issue 1/2002

Honegger Le Roi David

Yet another Roi David! But one which is surely worth reviving, for Ernest Amsermet was a contemporary of the composer—indeed,...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 9/1990

Dvorák/Janácek String Quartets

These are tense and lively performances of Janacek's quartets embodying two aspects of love. On the whole, the players' style...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 4/1994

Brahms Intermezzos

One's first reaction to seeing a release that includes all Brahms's Intermezzos for solo piano (well not quite all, since...

Reviewed in issue 11/1986

Smetana Orchestral Works

A pleasing programme, although I do wish that Decca (or Dohnanyi) had traded the ‘dangling carrot’ of “Vltava” for extra...

Reviewed in issue 2/1996

Shostakovich (The) Girlfriends

After his notable act of restoration with the complete score to the film Odna (“Alone”, 2/08), Mark Fitz-Gerald puts...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 9/2009

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