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Schumann Szenen aus Goethes Faust
Amidst a host of treasured Aldeburgh memories dating right back to the festival's inception, nothing in my mind glows more...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 7/1990
Sullivan Patience; Princess Ida
Compact Disc lengths and technical restoration processes have taken much of the pain out of listening to recordings such as...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 2/1997
Mahler Symphony No 8
Rafael Kubelik’s fresh and invigorating version of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony has its admirers. Like Haitink’s recently reissued account (Philips, 1/96),...
Reviewed in issue 2/1996
Bach St Matthew Passion, BWV244
Beginning his review of the original issue of this recording, on four LPs, Trevor Harvey wrote: ''There are those (not...
Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 3/1988
Bach Cantatas, Volume 4
Karl Richter was an unpredictable conductor and it would be nonsense to claim that all the performances contained in this...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 1/1995
Purcell Dido and Aeneas
Unlike most of the issues promised in the new BBC Legends series, ‘Britten the Performer’, this recording (mono only) does...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/1999
Wagner Tannhäuser
Listen to how Konwitschny conducts the Overture, the large ensemble in Act 2, and indeed much of the solo work...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1990
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 5. Piano Sonata No 31
Edwin Fischer | Karl Böhm | Staatskapelle Dresden
Here are some superb answers to those who express the feeling—they include Edwin Fischer—that musical quality is an elixir too...
Reviewed in issue 12/1994
Pfitzner Palestrina
Approached as an essay in words and music on a particularly resonant historic moment, when music, church and international politics...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 7/1989
Wagner Tristan und Isolde
The more one reviews and compares records, particularly operas, the more one comes to the conclusion that, among several, roughly...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1986
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