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Beecham conducts Beethoven, Schubert & Mendelssohn
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Thomas Beecham
On April 29th, 1954, only a little while after the recording of these three generally masterly performances, Sir Thomas Beecham...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 7/1990
BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto. Romances SCHUBERT Rondo
Andrew Manze | James Ehnes | Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
This interpretation of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto could be considered ‘old school’ by today’s standards. Indeed, if you’ve heard Manze’s sinewy account...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2017
Decades: A Century of Song Vol 1
Ann Murray | Florian Boesch | Lorna Anderson | Malcolm Martineau | Michael Schade | Sylvia Schwartz
As Susan Youens puts it – with some understatement – in her superb booklet-note, ‘The decade from 1810 to 1820...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2016
Kleiber conducts Beethoven,Berg, Schubert
Anneliese Kupper | Erich Kleiber | Kölner Rundfunk Sinfonie Orchester
Of various surviving broadcasts featuring Erich Kleiber with the Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra, the expertly judged Schubert Ninth issued here...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2008
Beethoven and Schubert String Quartets
The Brodsky Quartet consists of English instrumentalists hiding under the name of the Russian violinist Adolf Brodsky, the dedicatee of...
Reviewed in issue 1/1987
Liszt Piano Concertos
Kyrill Kondrashin | London Symphony Orchestra | Sviatoslav Richter
These are old recordings by CD standards, and one is aware of background tape hiss in such passages as the...
Reviewed in issue 12/1984
Mozart, arr Grieg Piano Sonatas
Elisabeth Leonskaja | Sviatoslav Richter
Now this really is something to tickle the fancy of transcription-fanciers. When Grieg added an accompaniment for a second piano...
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 2/1996
Schubert Orchestrated Lieder
Anne Sofie von Otter | Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Claudio Abbado | Thomas Quasthoff
Schubert himself orchestrated only one of these songs, the Romance from Rosamunde. The other arrangers are Berlioz, Brahms, Britten, Liszt,...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/2003
Schubert Works for Piano four hands
One might expect this combination of artists playing Schubert to produce winning results, and so it does. Rarely will you...
Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 8/1997
Schubert Piano Sonatas
Clifford Curzon | Daniel Barenboim
Few English artists enjoyed a more long-lasting, reciprocal love affair with the Salzburg Festival than Clifford Curzon who, at the...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1996
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