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Haydn Die Jahreszeiten
Marriner's 1980 recording of The Seasons, widely praised when it first appeared, makes an attractive proposition in the mid-price Philips...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 6/1994
R. Strauss Intermezzo
Sheer joy, this CD transfer, still the only recording easily available of what is increasingly coming to be regarded as...
Reviewed in issue 1/1989
Beethoven Edition, Vol.16 - Lieder
Inevitably with such a comprehensive collection, you have to take the rough with the smooth, and Beethoven’s Lieder opus includes...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 13/1997
Schubert Alfonso und Estrella
On the stage, Alfonso und Estrella makes a poor impression, for, as in other of his operas, Schubert's failure to...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1994
Gluck Iphigénie en Tauride
A new recording was badly needed, and I'm afraid it still is. This is one of the masterpieces of classical...
Reviewed in issue 7/1984
Gluck Orphée et Eurydice
Even in 1957, when it was first issued, this was an old-fashioned performance. Only, it seems to me, the most...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 2/1995
Hindemith Cardillac & Mathis der Maler excs
In its original (1926) version, Cardillac plays for a fast and furious hour and a half. The Wergo recording of...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/1991
R. Strauss Die Frau ohne Schatten
This is a historic document of some importance in the recorded history of this piece which now stretches back, in...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1996
Mahler Symphony No 1. Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Rafael Kubelík
This distinguished coupling has already been available at bargain price so its appearance in The Originals livery comes as something...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 2/1997
Orff Carmina Burana
The Jochum and Fruhbeck de Burgos performances stand head and shoulders above the competition here. The trusty old Smetacek account...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/1988
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