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Offenbach Les Contes d'Hoffmann
These days each new Hoffmann seems to have not merely its individual cast but its own individual text. Not so...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 6/1989
Schubert Schwanengesang
Alfred Brendel | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Fischer-Dieskau recorded the six Heine songs of Schwanengesang early in his career (HMV mono ALP1066, 10/53—nla) and he also recorded...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 2/1984
Schumann Dichterliebe & Kerner-Lieder
Daniel Barenboim | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Günther Weissenborn | Jörg Demus | Sviatoslav Richter
It is possible (though I don't quite see how) to love Fischer-Dieskau's records and not particularly want to play them....
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 6/2000
Pfitzner: Lieder
Aribert Reimann | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Gerald Moore | Hermann Reutter | Karl Engel
Those of us old enough to have attended Fischer-Dieskau's first recitals in London at the beginning of the 1950s will...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1990
Gluck Orfeo ed Euridice
Seekers after the true Orfeo, searchers for a first or replacement version for the shelves, pass by! Here is neither...
Reviewed in issue 4/1996
Chant d’automne
Modern Dutch solo brass players have a knack for programming. For Wim Van Hasselt it’s the creative outlet from various...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/2016
Schubert Die schöne Müllerin
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Gerald Moore | Julius Patzak | Michael Raucheisen
''Der Mensch hat so eine Stimme'' (''The man has a tone of voice'') says Rocco of Florestan, and it's always...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1989
Spontini Olympia
When Olympie was given at Palermo in 1979 Opera's correspondent wrote that it ''aroused genuine enthusiasm, almost as if it...
Reviewed in issue 11/1987
Schumann Duets
Christoph Eschenbach | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Julia Varady | Peter Schreier
This is a model of a mid-price reissue – interesting, neglected material performed to perfection with texts and translations provided....
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1999
Gluck Iphigénie en Tauride
I cannot dissent from the opinion of my colleagues, JBS and SS, in finding this set unsatisfactory and as such...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1987
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