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Martin and Egk: Vocal Works
If the celebrations marking the centenary of Frank Martin's birth last year were muted and saw no major new recording,...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 10/1991
Wagner Lohengrin
For some years now it has seemed increasingly anomalous that the Kempe Lohengrin (remastered for CD reissue in 1988) should...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/2000
Mahler Vocal Works
Thirty years ago, collectors would have given a good deal to possess a recording of Des Knaben Wunderhorn as generally...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/1988
R. Strauss Capriccio
If I could take only a single studio-made (as distinct from live) recording to my desert island, it might well...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1987
Brahms (Die) Schöne Magelone; Schubert Lieder
Benjamin Britten | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Sviatoslav Richter
Nineteen-sixty-five was the year which brought Fischer-Dieskau to Aldeburgh. More surprisingly, it brought Brahms also (Brahms being the composer of...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 9/2009
Mozart Le nozze di Figaro
This reissue has me in two minds. It has the benefit of Fricsay's well-known, crisp, resolute, finely detailed and honed...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1994
Schubert Sacred Works, Vol.1
Schubert's sacred choral works seem very much the poor relation in an output comprising so many indisputable masterpieces of vocal,...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 8/1994
Henze Cantata della fiaba estrema; Novae de infinito laudes
Among Henze’s considerable output there is only a handful of major works for chorus and orchestra. The 1968 oratorio Das...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 1/2004
Brahms Requiem
Although there are at least half a dozen historic recordings of this glorious work that boast a more striking profile...
Reviewed in issue 1/1994
Mozart Le) nozze di Figaro, '(The) Marriage of Figaro'
For a Salzburg Figaro of prime vintage I would probably look to the previous decade of the 1950s, but this...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 13/2010
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