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Mozart Piano Sonatas Vol 1
Andreas Haefliger aims for more than polite elegance. He tries to engage with the music; and his finger and pedalling...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 11/2003
Bach Trio Sonatas, Volume 2
James Galway | Jeanne Galway | Monica Huggett | Philip Moll | Sarah Cunningham
The partnership between James Galway and Monica Huggett, playing at modern pitch, may raise the odd eyebrow, but it is...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 8/1997
Haydn Nelson Mass; Theresienmesse
This second instalment of Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s series of the late Haydn Masses is, if anything, even more exciting...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 1/2003
Puccini Madama Butterfly
Sinopoli's Madama Butterfly is very moving, often extremely beautiful (not even Karajan makes Puccini's orchestra sound so ravishing) and, in...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 12/1988
Sorabji Transcriptions for Piano
Forget about orchestral timbres in the transcription of Ravel’s Rapsodie Espagnole that opens this recital. These are pointedly pianistic sonorities....
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 8/2003
Brahms Flute Sonatas; Schumann Romances
Charles Abramovic | Jeffrey Khaner
I approached these transcriptions with some scepticism, for the late Op 120 Sonatas seem custom-made for the dark, velvety tone...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/2005
Bruckner Symphony No. 6
Günter Wand | North German Radio Symphony Orchestra
Suddenly, and not before time, the Sixth Symphony of Bruckner is riding high. And deservedly so since it is the...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 2/1991
Lotte Lehmann in Opera, Vol.1
(Anonymous) Orchestra | Heinrich Schlusnus | Lotte Lehmann | Michael Bohnen
Listening to this Nimbus issue, one has immediately to ask again what one wants from one’s transfers of extremely ancient,...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1996
Premiers for Cello and Orchestra
David Zinman | Philadelphia Orchestra | Yo-Yo Ma
All these works were commissioned for Yo-Yo Ma which makes the performances definitive in at least one sense. Fortunately, David...
Reviewed in issue 3/1997
Shostakovich: Symphonies 6 and 11
(Royal) Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam | Bernard Haitink
In the CD format each symphony can now be heard uninterrupted on a single disc, a not inconsiderable advantage over...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 6/1985
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