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SCHOENBERG; BARTÓK Piano Concertos
Atvars Lakstigala | Liepaja Symphony Orchestra | Pina Napolitano
For Schoenberg’s Piano Concerto to sound effective the listener must be able to feel utterly at home in the work,...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2017
JS BACH The Solo Cantatas for Bass (Christian Senn)
Christian Senn | laBarocca | Ruben Jais
The inherited gravitas of Bach’s bass cantatas in post-war recorded history began with the iconic reflections of Hans Hotter and...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 08/2018
Solti - The Last Recording
It is apt, if ironic, that these very last recordings of Sir Georg Solti, product of sessions in Budapest last...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/1998
Schumann Liederkreis
Christian Gerhaher | Gerold Huber
Though the catch-all title “Melancholie” is slightly misleading, Christian Gerhaher’s enterprisingly planned programme provides a conspectus of Schumann’s art as...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 7/2008
BARTÓK The Miraculous Mandarin. Dance Suite. Contrasts
This disc presents a satisfying if somewhat quirkily planned programme. Near the opening of The Miraculous Mandarin ballet Salonen takes...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW16
MAHLER Des Knaben Wunderhorn
A loose miscellany rather than a defined cycle, Des Knaben Wunderhorn has ‘grow’d like Topsy’ in recent years. Michael Gielen...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2012
Bach Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1
This release of Rosalyn Tureck’s live traversal of Book 1 of Bach’s ‘48’ for BBC Radio 3 – spread across...
Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 3/2003
STRAUSS 'Zueignung' (Sarah Wegener)
Though Sarah Wegener has an extensive discography, the majority of her recordings are ensemble efforts with concert works ranging from...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2022
Daniel Barenboim: Encores
Far be it from me to be a party pooper, but my first reaction on seeing the running order of...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2022
JS BACH Solo Cantatas for Bass
Both of Bach’s great solo bass cantatas reflect on the voyage of the soul, Ich habe genug essentially as a...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2017
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