Rodney Review - 1 June 2023

In “Rodney Reviews” this month, Rodney featured the exciting young pianist Alice Sarah Ott. Her latest release for DG is called Echoes of Life and apart from the 24 Preludes and by Chopin, Alice includes music by Bach, Field and Silvestrov. Critics speak of her playing as being striking for…

Todays review: "Hélène Grimaud: For Clara". This album couples Robert Schumann’s Kreisleriana Op. 16 with Brahms’s Intermezzi Op. 117 and Lieder und Gesänge Op. 32, featuring baritone Konstantin Krimmel.

This month on Rodney Review’s it is Rachmaninoff - The Philadelphia Orchestra and Yannick Nézet-Séguin present Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3 and The Isle of the Dead. The 2 CD release will complete their two-part survey of the three symphonies and other major orchestral works and, like the first instalment…

Rodney Reviews two masterful Schubert interpreters, Mark Padmore and Mitsuko Uchida. They have recorded Schubert’s “Schwanengesang” And Beethoven’s "An die Ferne Geliebte"

Rodney Reviews: Daniel Barenboim’s – Schumann – The Symphonies with the Staatskapelle Berlin – A two CD set which was recorded during concerts.