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SCHUBERT Death and the Maiden SIBELIUS Intimate Voices
If there was one thing we learnt about the Ehnes Quartet from their debut recording in 2014 – Shostakovich’s Seventh...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2017
SCHUBERT String Quartet No 14 GRIEG String Quartet Op 2
In a booklet-note for this elegant release, Øystein Sonstad, the Quartet’s cellist, argues for Schubert’s D810 being the inspiration behind...
Reviewed in issue 07/2013
Lehár Die lustige Witwe. Das Land des Lächelns
It’s close on half a century since Walter Legge made these recordings in London in 1953 and 1954. Inevitably, the...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 4/2001
Weber Abu Hassan; Kampf und Sieg
This version of Abu Hassan has had rather a chequered history. Recorded in Berlin in 1941 on one of the...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 9/1989
Strauss, J II (Der) Ziguenerbaron, 'The Gypsy Baron'
Though recorded mostly in the spring of 1954, this classic recording was not released until over four years later. Hence...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 9/2009
Bruckner Symphonies, Vol 1
The 1930s were stirring times for Brucknerians. The appearance of critical editions, mostly edited by Robert Haas, of symphonies that...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/1997
Giordano Il Re; Mese Mariano
In the not-so-distant past most 'serious' musicians thought Giordano beneath notice while opera-goers of a certain kind felt he was...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/1999
Operetta Arias & Duets
One’s personal benchmarks are set by the artists of one’s formative years. For me, as for so many others, EMI’s...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 7/2008
Wagner Götterdämmerung
As more and more recordings from radio archives are made public we are gradually building a portrait in sound of...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1994
Britten String Quartet No 3; Schubert String Quintet D956
Amadeus Qt | Amadeus Quartet | Clifford Curzon | Rodney Slatford | William Pleeth
There are those who think of John Culshaw as a Decca man, as an audio director. These DVDs tell a...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 2/2006
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