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Nora Gubisch: Folksongs
Alain Altinoglu | Nora Gubisch
Erudite folksongs these, seen through the lens of the ‘classical composer’. But there’s a layer of experience, in the multinational...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: AW2014
BRAHMS Cello Sonatas (Fischer Duo)
Abigail Fischer | Jeanne Kierman Fischer | Norman Fischer
Celebrating the approach of their 50th anniversary the Fischer Duo – Norman Fischer and his wife Jeanne Kierman – unfold...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 02/2019
BRAHMS Complete Symphonies (Fischer)
Adám Fischer | Danish Chamber Orchestra
If Naxos’s new cycle of Brahms’s symphonies had been recorded with a full-size orchestra, this review might have been something...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: AW22
MAHLER Symphony No 3 (Fischer)
Bavarian Radio Chorus | Budapest Festival Orchestra | Cantemus Children’s Choir | Gerhild Romberger
Here for once is a Mahler symphony release that feels different from the outset. Jared Sacks and his colleagues at...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2017
MAHLER Symphony No 5 (Fischer)
Adám Fischer | Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra
Adam Fischer’s kinship with this music seems to grow exponentially with each successive instalment of what is already proving an...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 07/2018
BEETHOVEN Symphonies 1 & 5 (Fischer)
Iván Fischer leads a polished and powerful account of Beethoven’s Fifth, although he makes a few odd interpretative choices along...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2019
MOZART Die Zauberflöte (Fischer)
It’s not clear what La Scala intended to capture for posterity in this recording. The singers, orchestra and chorus are...
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 08/2017
Fischer & Müller-Schott: Duo Sessions
Daniel Müller-Schott | Julia Fischer
There’s plenty to enjoy here, though Julia Fischer and Daniel Müller-Schott virtually duplicate a programme that Nigel Kennedy and Lynn...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW16
BEETHOVEN Complete Symphonies (Fischer)
If you’re after a rationale behind this extraordinary set of performances, Fischer himself provides one in the booklet interview accompanying...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2019
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau – Famous Lieder
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Gerald Moore | Günther Weissenborn | Jörg Demus
Readers of Kenneth Whetton’s book on Fischer-Dieskau (Oswald Wolff: 1981) may recall a tantalising reference to recordings of music by...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/2009
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