Reviews Archive

  Brahms: Clarinet Sonatas and Clarinet Trio. The 20-year-old clarinetist Raphaël Sévère, and pianist Adam Laloum demonstrate that in the burnished colors of these sonatas, the composer chose the clarinet to bid a melancholy farewell …

The founding of the Berliner Philharmoniker on the first of May, 1882 is celebrated annually with a concert in a European city of cultural significance. In 2014 the Europakonzert took place in Berlin. This concert …

  Brahms: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2. Early in his career, Johannes Brahms was a Choral Director. He was also an outstanding pianist, and his Sonatas, as well as shorter solo pieces reflect this …

  Schubert: Complete works for violin and piano. The chamber music partnership of Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien is featured on this 2-CD album containing Schubert’s complete music for violin and piano. The intelligence and …

  Richard Strauss: Four Last Songs, Don Juan, and “Also sprach Zarathustra”. German composer, Richard Strauss, wrote his “Four Last Songs” (German: Vier letzte Lieder) for soprano and orchestra in 1948 when the composer was …