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Budapest Festival Orchestra | Petra Lang
The Meistersinger Overture’s sprightly pace (heading towards a total playing time of less than 10 minutes), the crisp Toscanini-like timpani...
Reviewed in issue 08/2013
Schubert (Die) schöne Müllerin
András Schiff | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
To celebrate Fischer-Dieskau’s 80th birthday, Austrian Television, with the performers’ consent, has issued this film made at the 1991 Schubertiade....
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/2005
Shostakovich Symphony 14; Marina Tsvetaeva Poems
Not for the first time is reappearance on CD a mixed blessing. With the singers that much closer to you...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 3/1987
Spohr: Lieder
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Dimitry Sitkovetsky | Hans Schöneberger | Hartmut Höll | Julia Varady
In his admirable study of Spohr (Louis Spohr: a critical biography—Cambridge: 1984), Clive Brown quotes a pretty devastating review by...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1985
Bartók Duke Bluebeard's Castle
Bluebeard's Castle is a difficult opera to cast. Bluebeard himself must either be a bass who can get up to...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 9/1988
Wolf Italienisches Liederbuch
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Elisabeth Schwarzkopf | Erik Werba | Gerald Moore | Irmgard Seefried
Wolf himself stated that the Italian Songbook is ''the most original and artistically consummate of all my works'' and he...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1990
BRUCE The North Wind was a Woman
Camerata Pacifica | Dover Quartet | Nora Fischer | The North Wind Ensemble
Three works by the US-born British composer David Bruce immediately alert you to both his qualities (freshness, clarity, impulsive response...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW2019
Reger: Orchestral Songs
''Orchestral Songs''—Orchesterlieder—may be a misleading label. These four works, each between 12½ and 16 minutes in length, are more like...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 2/1991
Orff Carmina burana
Since its original release, Jochum's performance has consistently been a prime recommendation for this much-recorded piece. Listening to it again...
Reviewed in issue 12/1995
Eichendorff Lieder - Live at Salzburg, 1975
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Wolfgang Sawallisch
Eichendorff, who breathes the very spirit of romanticism, has always been a notable source of inspiration for German-speaking composers. As...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1990
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