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Schubert Symphonies
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Colin Davis | Herbert von Karajan | Staatskapelle Dresden
Schubert year is off to a bumper start. It might be interesting, if Karajan were still with us, to hear...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/1997
Don Pasquale & Tito Schipa Recital
Nobody who is interested in how Donizetti's lighter works could and should be sung ought to be without this Don...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1990
Wagner Rheingold
Here we are at the start of the revelatory Bayreuth Ring of 1955, and from the very first primordial sounds...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/2007
Schubert Trout Quintet, D667; String Quartet, D810
How good that both these much loved Trouts are now available on CD. In sound both come up remarkably well,...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 6/1988
Schubert Symphony No 8. Beethoven Symphony No 8
Christoph von Dohnányi | Cleveland Orchestra
These two popular symphonies are conducted by Dohnanyi with percipience and, especially in the Beethoven, with zest, and he always...
Reviewed in issue 10/1984
Beethoven/Schubert String Quartets
The cover shows that this young American quartet is extremely photogenic. And the musicmaking is the aural equivalent—glamorous in tone-quality,...
Reviewed in issue 7/1988
Souvenirs de Venise
The sparkling piano-playing and bubbling voices which coyly introduce Anthony Rolfe Johnson as Tonio the oarsman at the start of...
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 3/1988
Beethoven/Schubert Chamber Works
By following Boccherini in using two cellos instead of two violas for his String Quintet, Schubert increased the potential for...
Reviewed in issue 11/1994
Brahms German Requiem
This 1947 Vienna recording of the Brahms Requiem—the first studio recording of the work and still one of the most...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 1/1990
Claudio Arrau
Solomon | Claudio Arrau | George Hurst | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Sviatoslav Richter
Here on two DVDs, together lasting more than four hours, EMl mine the archives to give us one incomparable series...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 1/2003
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