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Humperdinck Hänsel und Gretel;Weber Abu Hassan
These are performances that, over and above their historic interest, are well worth anyone’s attention. The Humperdinck houses an ideal...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1996
Wolf Lieder Recital
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf | Gerald Moore
The programme opens with a song of which Schwarzkopf made two studio recordings, both of them remaining unpublished. It is...
Reviewed in issue 2/1996
Beethoven Fidelio
As month follows month and more and more live performances appear, our perspective on the purpose of recordings seem to...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/2004
Beethoven Edition, Vol. 2 - Concertos
The Concerto box in DG’s Beethoven Edition is inevitably a very mixed bag, and quite different from its equivalent six-LP...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 13/1997
Beethoven Symphonies Nos 1 & 7
EMI digitally remastered and reissued much of Klemperer's Beethoven last year (other symphonies now on CD were reviewed in our...
Reviewed in issue 9/1986
James Galway plays Schubert
The Arpeggione Sonata must be played in transcription; nobody today plays the arpeggione (unsuccessful offspring of an unholy liaison of...
Reviewed in issue 3/1985
Dvorák/Schubert String Quartets
Since leaving EMI and Nimbus, the Medici Quartet have been recording under their own label, and the two present issues...
Reviewed in issue 10/1993
London Concertante plays Mendelssohn & Schubert
Chris Grist | London Concertante | Nadia Lasserson | Peter Fisher
The 14-year-old Mendelssohn’s ambitious, extraordinarily inventive Concerto (heard here in its original chamber guise) starts promisingly, but tensions are apt...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 6/1998
Schubert Symphonies
Carlos Kleiber | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
On the evidence of this record Carlos Kleiber is nothing like so good a conductor of Schubert as he is...
Reviewed in issue 12/1985
Haydn/Schubert Symphonies
John Lubbock | St John's Smith Square Orchestra
This is a pleasantly fresh, unpretentious account of Schubert's most engaging symphony: lively in the two outer movements and with...
Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 8/1986
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