At last year’s Proms, Hough was the soloist in all four of Tchaikovsky’s works for piano and orchestra, all but the B flat minor concerto (No 1) extre...
Hugh Canning - 08/Nov/2009
Fink’s second Schumann song disc falls into two halves, as in a live lieder recital. The climax of the Argentine mezzo’s programme is, app...
Hugh Canning - 18/Jul/2009
The Canadian Marie-Nicole Lemieux’s Mrs Quickly was the vocal star of Glyndebourne’s new Falstaff this summer and the 29-year-old has already made her...
David Cairns - 15/Mar/2009
Considering how much Schumann loved the cello, it is strange — and from a
cellist’s point of view reprehensible — that he wrote so little solo music
f...
Gilles Macassar - 16/Jun/2010
Au lendemain du deux centième anniversaire de la naissance de Robert Schumann (le 8 juin 1810), on ne pouvait rê-ver de cadeau discographique plus opp...