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MOZART The Magic Flute
As with Klemperer’s Fidelio, this live performance from Covent Garden – which now appears on disc for the first time...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2015
Weber (Der) Freischütz
Der Freischütz is a work on which young German opera conductors cut their teeth and to which old German conductors...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 3/2008
Schumann & MacDowell Piano Concertos, etc
Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Fritz Reiner | Van Cliburn | Walter Hendl
We're told that it was with MacDowell's Second Piano Concerto in D minor that Van Cliburn made his first professional...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 10/1991
Schubert Lieder
Geoffrey Parsons | Graham Johnson | Janet Baker | Martin Isepp
The interpretation of Schubert’s Lieder comes no better than this‚ a recital taken from three different broadcast sources‚ catching Dame...
Reviewed in issue 11/2001
Schubert Symphonies
Riccardo Muti | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
There is playing of great beauty and power in the Unfinished, as you'd expect, excepting the slightly ragged chording in...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 8/1991
Shostakovich Chamber Symphony; Symphony for Strings
Auvergne Orchestra | Jean-Jacques Kantorow | Julian Bigg | Phoenix Chamber Orchestra
Interesting though it is for Mahlerians (well moderately interesting, though less so for Schubertians or chamber music enthusiasts) this transcription...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 9/1988
Schubert Symphonies
Arturo Toscanini | NBC Symphony Orchestra
Toscanini's finest Great C major Symphony is the wonderfully flexible 1941 recording with the Philadelphia Orchestra ((CD) GD60328, 6/91). His...
Reviewed in issue 11/1992
Schubert Trout Quintet, D667
I have no detailed information about the Hagens but understand they come from Vienna. Andras Schiff has become known this...
Reviewed in issue 2/1985
SCHUBERT Complete Symphonies. Masses Nos 5 & 6
Between 2003 and 2006, the Berlin Philharmonic devoted two concerts each season to what was in effect a Harnoncourt Schubert...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 08/2015
Schubert Complete Symphonies
Academy of St Martin in the Fields | Neville Marriner
These nicely-packaged discs combine familiar Schubert in superb performances with the unfamiliar newly-minted by Brian Newbould, who contributes a good...
Reviewed in issue 2/1985
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