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Brahms Lieder
There is so much to admire in this thoughtfully prepared and executed and well-filled disc that I feel churlish in...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1993
Wallen (The) Girl in my Alphabet
Errollyn Wallen (b1958) is unsettlingly versatile. Her works range from jazz songs (a highly successful sideline which she has toured...
Reviewed in issue 7/2002
Mozart Piano Concertos
András Schiff | Salzburg Mozarteum Camerata Academica | Sándor Végh
The names of Andras Schiff and Sandor Vegh are distinguished ones in this repertory, and collectors following their series of...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 7/1991
Verdi La forza del destino
A period of sustained listening to Verdi's four great mid-period operas—Boccanegra (revised version). Ballo, Forza del destino and Don Carlos—is...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1993
Fibich Anthology of Czech Piano Music, Volume 5
Fibich composed 376 short piano pieces under the title Nalady, Dojny a Upominky, or Moods, Impressions and Reminiscences (of which...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/1994
Brahms Symphony No 3; St Antoni Variations
London Philharmonic Orchestra | Marin Alsop
Brand-new budget-price recordings which can rub shoulders with the best are rarer than one imagines (Colin Davis's 1962 HMV Concert...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/2007
Druckman Chamber Works
Curtis Macomber | Daniel Druckman | Fred Sherry | Group for Contemporary Music
Best known for his iridescent orchestral scores, Druckman achieves in his quartets a fine balance between formal complexity and expressive...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 11/1998
Norah Amsellem - Debut
Dalton Baldwin | Norah Amsellem
Norah Amsellem is fortunate in having Dalton Baldwin as her accompanist here. The late Gérard Souzay, Baldwin’s longtime collaborator, penned...
Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 4/2005
Jamaican Rumba - Music by Arthur Benjamin, Volume 1
Arthur Benjamin's Jamaican Rumba was the result of a visit there in 1938 and it soon became a world hit....
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 5/2000
Toscanini Collection, Vol.65
Arturo Toscanini | New York Philharmonic Orchestra | New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
The Haffner Symphony is played in an amazingly romantic fashion for Toscanini, with many rubatos and other expressive devices which...
Reviewed in issue 11/1992
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