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R. Strauss Rosenkavalier
As more and more recordings are released from Austrian Radio archives of performances in the period just after the State...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/2000
Schubert: Fierabras
Schubert began at least 16 operas; he completed only half of them; only one of these was performed in his...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/1990
SIBELIUS Symphony No 2
Nothing gave me greater pleasure when listening to these three CDs than Gerald English’s performance of the Britten Serenade, his...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2013
Prokofiev - Piano Works and Transcriptions
Alexander Guindin | Joseph Payne | Thomas Larcher
Schubert and Schoenberg are the chalk and the cheese at either end of Viennese romanticism. Schoenberg was well aware of...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 1/2000
Le Bestiaire
Ann Murray | Anthony Rolfe Johnson | Felicity Lott | Graham Johnson | Richard Jackson
Graham Johnson once again demonstrates his skill in programme-building in this latest anthology of his, an ingenious collection of songs...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 8/1986
Beethoven Piano Sonatas Nos 3 & 29. Bagatelles Op.126
Playing for small, discerning audiences in venues off the beaten track, Richter often gave of his transcendental best. So it...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 2/2001
Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos 1 and 3
Christoph Eschenbach | Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival Orchestra | Sviatoslav Richter
Whether it is a case of dramatic mood-swings or more simply a retreat into melancholy with advancing years, I wouldn't...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 9/1994
Beethoven/Schubert Piano Trios
Alfred Cortot | Jacques Thibaud | Pablo Casals
One reason why the recordings by Thibaud, Cortot and Casals have such a wonderful freshness is that the players came...
Reviewed in issue 10/1989
Beethoven/Rossini/Schubert Orchestral Works
Cleveland Orchestra | Colin Davis | George Szell | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Here are two of Davis’s first records, and one Szell made three months before his death. You will look in...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 11/1996
Wagner Der Ring des Nibelungen
Charting a path through the maze of Ring recordings becomes ever more complex as the sets pile up on the...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1994
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