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Heifetz Collection - Concertos
The gem of this disc is the Wieniawski concerto, with which Heifetz not only created a sensation on his American...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 11/1992
Liszt: Symphonic Poems
Kurt Masur | Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
These are strong, exciting and idiomatic performances. Masur draws impassioned playing from the Gewandhaus orchestra in the best known of...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 2/1988
Wolff Bread and Roses
Malcolm Goldstein | Matthias Kaul
‘Dependency and ‘Freedom’ – watchwords central to music-making of the kind that Christian Wolff envisages in For 1, 2 or...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 3/2004
Mozart & Schumann: Chamber Works
Antony Pay | Ian Brown | Roger Chase
Some things have inevitably changed since these recordings were first issued: The English Concert now plays with rather more freedom,...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 9/1986
Schubert Winterreise
Christian Hilz | Eckart Sellheim
Peter Harvey is a baritone whose name has become familiar over the last few years, mostly in association with Bach...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/2011
Bruckner Symphony No 8
Evgeni Svetlanov | USSR Academy Symphony Orchestra
The disturbing thing about this account of Bruckner's Eighth Symphony is that, given the premises on which many people in...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 1/1990
Guitar Concertos
Nicholas Ward | Norbert Kraft | Northern Chamber Orchestra
Guitar concertos come and go but these three remain at the core of the genre, as they have been for...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 4/1994
Caresana (L') Adoratione de' Maggi
Venetian tenor Cristoforo Caresana (c1640-1709) performed in several operas by Cavalli but in 1658 he moved to Naples to become...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 3/2011
Britten Music for Oboe and Piano
Delmé Quartet | Michael Dussek | Sarah Francis
Close on the heels of Harmonia Mundi’s Poulenc/Britten disc (see above), featuring the excellent young French oboist Francois Leleux, comes...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 2/1996
Heise & Lange-Müller Songs
Christen Stubbe Teglbjerg | Inger Dam-Jensen | Sten Byriel | Ulrik Staerk
Peter Arnold Heise and Peter Erasmus Lange-Muller represent the rapturous spring and the melancholy autumn of Danish romantic song; and...
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 9/1997
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