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Review of Liszt/Schumann/Brahms Piano Works

Liszt/Schumann/Brahms Piano Works

Artur Pizarro | Martha Argerich

Classics

Artur Pizarro is the young Portuguese virtuoso who garnered first prizes at Leeds, Lisbon and Florida and, predictably, his Liszt...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/1993

Review of DEBUSSY Fantasie. La Mer (Martha Argerich)

DEBUSSY Fantasie. La Mer (Martha Argerich)

Berlin Staatskapelle | Daniel Barenboim | Martha Argerich | Michael Barenboim

Deutsche Grammophon

Martha Argerich was clearly on fiery form when she was captured live in May 2018 in Debussy’s early Fantaisie, a...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2021

Review of Furtwängler Recordings 1942-44

Furtwängler Recordings 1942-44

Dokumente

British intelligence experts who monitored German radio broadcasts during the Second World War became puzzled by programmes which could not...

Reviewed in issue 9/1989

Review of Copland; Mozart; Strauss Works for Clarinet and Orchestra

Copland; Mozart; Strauss Works for Clarinet and Orchestra

Alexander Schneider | Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Matthew Wilkie | Richard Hosford | Thierry Fischer

COE

Two good reasons for the quality of the COE woodwind to take a well-earned step forward into the solo spotlight....

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 10/1989

Review of Mendelssohn-Hensel Oratorio

Mendelssohn-Hensel Oratorio

Annemarie Fischer-Kunz | Cologne Kurrende Chorus | Cologne Kurrende Orchestra | Elke Mascha Blankenburg | Hitoshi Hatano | Isabel Lippitz | Thomas Thomaschke

CPO

Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel was still only 26 when writing this little oratorio in 1831, just two years after her marriage. We're...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 3/1989

Review of Berkeley, L (A) Dinner Engagement

Berkeley, L (A) Dinner Engagement

Anne Collins | Blake Fischer | City of London Sinfonia | Clare Rutter | Jean Rigby | Richard Hickox | Robin Leggate | Roderick Williams | Yvonne Kenny

Chandos

Fifty years ago in June A Dinner Engagement was premièred at the Aldeburgh Festival. It was written for Britten’s English...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 9/2004

Review of Mozart concert

Mozart concert

Alexander Oliver | Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra | István Ella | Jeunesses Musicales Chorus | László Polgár | Mária Zádori | Paul Esswood

Hungaroton

This is one of those records, familiar to all reviewers, which has so many points in its favour that one...

Reviewed in issue 12/1986

Review of Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart: Madrigali

Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart: Madrigali

Andreas Fischer | Guillermo Anzorena | Martin Nagy | Sarah Maria Sun | Stuttgart New Vocal Soloists | Susanne Leitz | Truike van der Poel

Col legno

The origin of term ‘madrigal’ is a matter of debate: it may be linked to the notion of the mother-tongue,...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2014

Review of MARTINŮ Les larmes du couteau. The Comedy on the Bridge

MARTINŮ Les larmes du couteau. The Comedy on the Bridge

Adam Palka | Andrew Bogard | Björn Bürger | Cornelius Meister | Elena Tsallagova | Esther Dierkes | Maria Riccarda Wesseling | Michael Smallwood | Stine Marie Fischer | Stuttgart State Orchestra

Capriccio

Martinů’s short one-act operas make for a bright and entertaining double bill, and they receive bright and entertaining performances on...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 01/2023

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