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Schubert Piano Sonata & Fantasy
Inevitably there are small differences of timing and points of emphasis in Brendel's new coupling of the B flat Sonata...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 1/1990
Schubert - Rosamunde. Dvorák Czech Suite
Czech Chamber Orchestra | Rudolf Krecmer
A relatively new Czech ensemble proudly embodying ‘Old World’ Czech playing styles and sounds. So, a disc for those who...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 13/1998
Schubert Impromptus, D899 & D946
To get some idea of Perahia's approach to this music imagine a tree just opening from bud in the radiance...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 1/1984
Mendelssohn and Schubert Symphonies
Frans Brüggen | Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century
The Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century here plays two symphonies of the nineteenth century ''on period instruments'', but which period...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1991
Tessa Lark: Fantasy
On the evidence of this musically engaging programme, violinist Tessa Lark has a canny ability to adjust her approach according...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2019
Violins of Hope: Heggie, Schubert & Mendelssohn
Daniel Hope | Dawn Harms | Emil Miland | Kay Stern | Patricia Heller | Sasha Cooke | Sean Mori
The stars of this programme are the instruments themselves, all of which come from the Violins of Hope project. Originally...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2021
Haydn Symphonies
The Furtwangler CD couples two justly famous studio performances from the LP era, neither of which suffers unduly from comparison...
Reviewed in issue 12/1995
Celibidache conducts Bruckner & Schubert
Sergiu Celibidache | Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra
After drought, inundation. Alive, Celibidache recorded virtually nothing; dead, his heirs and their associates in rival companies are tossing boxed...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 7/2000
Schubert Mass No 5; Mendelssohn Psalm 42
With a mere handful of recordings of Mendelssohn’s Psalm 42 currently available, it may seem strange that Philippe Herreweghe has...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 4/2003
Schubert Symphony No 9, etc
John Eliot Gardiner | Monteverdi Choir | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
An outstanding example of the programmer’s art. From the close of the choral song’s watery passage of the soul, the...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/1998
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