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Review of Schubert (Die) Schöne Müllerin

Schubert (Die) Schöne Müllerin

Ian Bostridge | Mitsuko Uchida

EMI Classics

For most singers of Die schöne Müllerin, the progress from the firm step of the opening song to the final...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 5/2005

Review of Schubert Piano Trios

Schubert Piano Trios

Lynn Harrell | Pinchas Zukerman | Vladimir Ashkenazy

Decca

The Schubert year is producing some high-class recordings of the piano trios. Coming to this shortly after La Gaia Scienza’s...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 12/1997

Review of Schubert Impromptus

Schubert Impromptus

Alfred Brendel

Philips

With contenders like Lupu, Perahia and Brendel around, only a foolhardy critic would presume to pick out any one version...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 10/1989

Review of Mendelssohn Symphony No 3; Schubert Symphony No 8

Mendelssohn Symphony No 3; Schubert Symphony No 8

Petko Dimitrov | Sofia New Symphony Orchestra

K&K

The members of the New Symphony Orchestra, drawn from the Sofia Radio Orchestra, are a comparatively young ensemble founded in...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 6/2003

Review of Schubert & Schumann: Chamber Works

Schubert & Schumann: Chamber Works

Richard Goode | Richard Stoltzman

Red Seal

When planning this record, I wonder what streak of perversity prompted Richard Stoltzman to include only one work originally designed...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 9/1989

Review of Schubert Violin Sonatinas

Schubert Violin Sonatinas

Gidon Kremer | Oleg Maisenberg

DG

The front cover of the booklet here refers to these works as sonatinas, while the notes and back cover have...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 4/1993

Review of Schubert: Lieder

Schubert: Lieder

Jessye Norman | Philip Moll

Another hearing of this recital confirms any opinions expressed in October: the more reflective songs receive the more idiomatic performances...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1985

Review of Barraqué Complete Works 1950-68

Barraqué Complete Works 1950-68

Charlie Fischer | Christina Ascher | Claudia Barainsky | Deborah Miles-Johnson | Ernesto Molinari | Florian Müller | Jean Barraqué | Julie Moffat | Jürg Wyttenbach | Peter Rundel

CPO

The music of Jean Barraque (1928-73), a self-confessed romantic who sought to emulate the expressive scope of Beethoven through an...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 9/1998

Review of Wagner Parsifal

Wagner Parsifal

Anja Silja | Bayreuth Festival Chorus | Bayreuth Festival Orchestra | Dorothea Siebert | Elsa-Margrete Gardelli | Georg Paskuda | George London | Gerd Nienstedt | Gerhard Stolze | Gundula Janowitz

Philips

This is not merely one of Philips’s Great Recordings but also one of the greatest sets of all time. Every...

Reviewed in issue 8/2001

Review of Walton Troilus and Cressida (highlights)

Walton Troilus and Cressida (highlights)

Alan Opie | Della Jones | Elisabeth Schwarzkopf | Geoffrey Walls | John Hauxvell | John Shirley-Quirk | Lewis Thomas | Marie Collier | Monica Sinclair | Northern Sinfonia

Chandos

If Walton's sense of humour was firmly established from the start in Facade, his one-acter, The Bear, among his later...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 1/1994

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