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Great Conductors of the 20th Century - Karl Böhm
Noting, perhaps, that it was the Feast of the Assumption, Karl Böhm ended his Salzburg Festival concert on August 15,...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/2004
Dvorák Stabat Mater
In an interview included as the final track of this pair of discs, Robert Shaw regrets that there have been...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 2/2000
Couperin, L; Froberger Harpsichord Works
This disc claims to be a showcase for a recently restored harpsichord, and a fine job it makes of it....
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 1/2008
Schütz Symphoniæ Sacræ III, Op 12
Cantus Cölln | Concerto Palatino | Konrad Junghänel
Twenty years having passed since the Schütz 400th anniversary, it’s hard to think of many composers before Bach whose discography...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 1/2006
Haydn Piano Concerto in D; Schubert Symphonies Nos 6 & 8
Günter Wand’s years with the Gürzenich Orchestra of Cologne, lasting from the Second World War up to 1974, predate those...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 1/2005
Apostel and the String Quartet
Hans Erich Apostel (1901-72) is famous more for the reflected glory of managing to study with Schoenberg and Berg than...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 5/2011
Walton Chamber Music
Carlos Bonell | Gretel Dowdeswell | Hamish Milne | John Mark Ainsley | Kenneth Sillito
The important newcomer here is the Toccata for violin and piano, which Walton wrote between 1922 and 1923, rather longer...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/1994
Mozart: Chamber Works
Jean-Philippe Collard | Muir Quartet
These are works dating from the 1780s; masterly music and, in two cases, as dramatic as Mozart's use of the...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 4/1991
Wagner Opera Excerpts
Here is a welcome souvenir of McIntyre, for his many admirers, in some of his notable Wagnerian assumptions. One of...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1992
Heinrich Albert Songs of Love and Death
Cantus CÕLln | Konrad Junghänel
Heinrich Albert was a central figure in a group of poets and musicians active in Konigsberg during the second quarter...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 6/1992
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