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Druschetzky; Fischer Works for Multiple Timpani and Orchestra
Bournemouth Sinfonietta | Gordon Hunt | Harold Farberman | Jonathan Haas
''Eight timpani'' does not mean eight one-drum players in the style of a Russian horn band, it means eight drums...
Reviewed in issue 10/1989
Paganini 24 Caprices, Op 1
Only a few months after James Ehnes’s second recording of the Caprices, here comes another top-class account. Julia Fischer certainly...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 9/2010
Bach St Matthew Passion
How often a maestro's return to his Alma Mater results in a pale reflection of previous glories—and how ironic it...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 6/1994
Wagner Tannhäuser
This is a revelatory interpretation of a work which is not easy to bring off. André Cluytens had taken over...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/2005
Bach Cantatas, Vol. 5
This fifth and final volume of Bach cantatas from Karl Richter contains works written for the 18th to 27th Sundays...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 1/1995
BRUCH Violin Concerto No 1
Guy Braunstein is a persuasive player who is soon to step down from his current position as concertmaster of the...
Reviewed in issue 06/2013
Reutter Lieder
Aribert Reimann | Axel Bauni | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Doris Soffel
At a casual glance or listen, Hermann Reutter (1900-85) might seem like a composer who did not so much continue...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 2/2003
SCHUMANN Piano Concerto, Op 54 BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No 30
Annie Fischer | Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra | Joseph Keilberth
If any great pianist merits the word ‘integrity’, it is surely Annie Fischer. Frequently described during her heyday as the...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 06/2012
MAHLER Symphony No 1
In describing Iván Fischer’s account of Mahler’s Symphony No 1 with the Budapest Festival Orchestra at last year’s Proms, the...
Reviewed by K Smith in issue: 09/2012
Wagner Lohengrin
You needn't do more than compare the Act 1 Prelude in these two performances to hear the superior sound-quality of...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 2/1988
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