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Strauss Arabella
A performance recorded in Munich in 1963 had the same Arabella, Mandryka and conductor (DG, 11/95 – nla). That production...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/2006
Bach Cantatas, Vol. 1
It was only to be expected that, with the burgeoning interest in period instrument performances which took place in Europe...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 3/1994
French Romantic Songs
Aribert Reimann | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Hartmut Höll
Even in his later years Fischer-Dieskau remained a remarkable explorer. On these four discs he ventured into some unusual territory,...
Reviewed in issue 12/1995
Hartmann: Symphonies
Stravinsky once remarked that Alban Berg was ''synthetic, in the best sense''—the same could perhaps be said about the German,...
Reviewed by jswain in issue: 5/1990
Bartók Duke Bluebeard's castle; Stravinsky Oedipus rex
If music were the only language involved here, both performances would justify the highest accolades. In fact, the Bartok recording...
Reviewed in issue 11/1995
DVOŘÁK Violin Concerto. Poème
The experience of listening to Julia Fischer’s latest CD was tinged with sadness, cast as it was in the shadow...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2011
Mélodies de la belle époque
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Hartmut Höll
Indefatigable even in his 60s, Fischer-Dieskau here adds new items to his vast discography in a field where he has...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1988
Haydn Die Schöpfung
Forget, for a moment, the period piping wood-doves, thunderbolts rattling authentically from short sticks, the presence or absence of double-bass...
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 12/1991
Britten: Orchestral & Vocal Works
It cannot be denied, good as the recent recordings of Britten's Cello Symphony have been (Yo-Yo Ma on CBS outstandingly...
Reviewed in issue 9/1989
Brahms: Vocal Works
As this issue of these delightful works has no other rival, apart from an unsuitable choral version ih the CD...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1988
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