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The Romantic Flute
Only one of the works recorded here is as the composer envisaged it, and that is Schubert’s set of variations...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 3/1998
Beethoven and Schubert String Quartets
As quartet playing this is remarkable, for the Emerson Quartet succeeds in sounding at times like an orchestra and an...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 12/1990
Beethoven Missa Solemnis; Schubert Symphony No 4
I wrote‚ at some length‚ about the Giulini performance‚ unearthed here by BBC Legends‚ for The Financial Times in 1968....
Reviewed in issue 8/2002
Kiri te Kanawa Song Recital
Kiri Te Kanawa | Richard Amner
Somewhere in the world's book of fairy stories there must be one about the girl who is ushered into the...
Reviewed in issue 9/1989
Haydn/Ravel/Schubert String Quartets
The very concept of this programme – mixing different composers from different periods – poses something of a problem for...
Reviewed in issue 8/1997
Bezaly & Brautigam - Masterworks for Flute and Piano
Ronald Brautigam | Sharon Bezaly
The glowing richness of Sharon Bezaly’s tone is immediately striking. It may be something of an acquired taste compared to...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 6/2006
Voice and Harp Recital
Charlotte de Rothschild | David Watkins
Charlecote Park, now National Trust property, was the ancestral home of the Lucy family, into which Mary Elizabeth married in...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 5/1996
Schubert/Sibelius Symphonies; Bizet/Ravel Suites
Adrian Boult | Philharmonia Orchestra | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Only last May I was warmly welcoming Beecham’s 1954 Proms performance of Sibelius’s mighty Seventh Symphony with the RPO; now...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2000
Mozart Piano Sonatas
Richter has never been especially associated with Mozart's music. But though his view of the composer may strike some as...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 1/1991
Prokofiev & Schubert Cello Sonatas
Ofra Harnoy in her sixth record for RCA offers an unusual but attractive coupling of a Schubert sonata that always...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/1989
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