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Brahms Cello Sonatas
Jean Fonda | Peter Evans | Pierre Fournier | Steven Isserlis
On June 24th of this year, Pierre Fournier would have been 80: no doubt Philips had been saving this recording,...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1986
Guitar Concertos
Göran Söllscher | Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
One might describe Goran Sollscher as 'the thinking man's guitarist': one who does nothing he has not thought through, and...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 6/1990
Britten Choral Works
This is an important issue, and first let me praise the enthrallingly good singing of the London Sinfonietta Voices and...
Reviewed in issue 10/1988
Schubert Schwanengesang, D957
Christoph Berner | Werner Güra
Though Schubert wrote the songs published as Schwanengesang in the tenor range, recordings by tenors remain surprisingly rare. You immediately...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 5/2007
Bach Cantatas Nos 54, 82 & 170
Hanover Band | Nathalie Stutzmann | Roy Goodman
Bach obligingly made several versions of his Leipzig cantata Ich habe genug to accommodate not only the baritone voice, with...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 11/1996
Giordano Madame Sans Gene
After Andrea Chenier, Fedora and Siberia, Madame Sans-Gene will be a considerable surprise to Giordano’s admirers, perhaps even to his...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 7/1996
Haydn Symphonies, Vol. 4
With three versions now in the catalogue (and a fourth, from Hogwood, in the pipeline), Haydn's fetching programmatic trilogy has...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/1991
Ginastera Piano Music, Vol.1
Alberto Portugheis | Aurora Natola-Ginastera
Few composers have had the good fortune to be married to a performer of world class who has become a...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 10/1993
Brahms Piano Sonata No 3, Op 5; Ballades, Op 10
In what we’re told is his first “purely solo recording” since signing an exclusive contract with Teldec, Barenboim salutes the...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 10/1997
Shostakovich String Quartet Nos 3, 7 & 8
Coupling these quartets seems to be in vogue: this disc follows on from that by the Hagen Quartet (DG, 8/06),...
Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 13/2006
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