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Bartók Orchestral Works
The four lavish canvases that make up Bartok's Pieces are virtually as much a 'concerto for orchestra' as the better-known...
Reviewed in issue 3/94
Tchaikovsky Cherevichki
There have been several recordings of an opera which has never really entered the repertory but which Tchaikovsky held in...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 4/2005
Ruders Kafka's Trial
The enigmatic, nightmarish The Trial is, after Metamorphosis, probably Franz Kafka’s most celebrated tale. Left in fragmentary form at his...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 6/2006
Schubert Complete Piano Duets, Vol 1
Anthony Goldstone | Caroline Clemmow
An encouraging start to husband-and-wife Goldstone and Clemmow’s projected seven-disc Schubert duet cycle. Though the appropriately titled Grand Duo seems...
Reviewed by mquinn in issue: 3/1999
Schubert Lieder
Bryn Terfel | Malcolm Martineau
Should I eat my words of last month when I stated that Simon Keenlyside was the ''best baritone interpreter of...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1994
Bruckner Symphonies Nos 5, 6, 8 and 9
Günter Wand | North German Radio Symphony Orchestra
With the deaths of Wand, Celibidache and Giulini, the past five years have been good to the scant remaining Bruckner...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 1/2006
Richard Tauber sings Lieder
Mischa Spoliansky | Percy Kahn | Richard Tauber
I would not send an aspiring interpreter of Lieder to Tauber's recordings to learn style, but I would urge her...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1990
Schubert Chamber Works
Amadeus Qt | Emil Gilels | Martin Lovett | Norbert Brainin | Peter Schidlof | Rainer Zepperitz
Re-mastering and the transfer to CD have much improved the sound of these striking performances. As JOC remarked in her...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 11/1984
Schubert Piano Sonatas
The appearance of another volume of Schubert's piano music from Andras Schiff always lifts the spirits, and this time quite...
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 6/1994
Schubert/Dvorák Piano Trios
Though the catalogue abounds in fine performances of both these works, this is the only currently available coupling of the...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 11/1992
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