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Van Cliburn plays Mozart, Debussy & Barber
Along with Horowitz's famous interpretation (RCA (CD) GD60377—to be reviewed later), Van Cliburn's is one that makes every bar of...
Reviewed in issue 5/1991
Shostakovich Symphony 11
While there are some genuinely 'historic' performances in this batch of Shostakovich symphonies, the documentation provided—a curious mix of Soviet-style...
Reviewed in issue 1/1994
Bruckner Symphony No. 2
Carlo Maria Giulini | Vienna Symphony Orchestra
‘Perhaps the greatest of all recordings of the work‚ spacious‚ involved‚ profoundly human’: so wrote Richard Osborne in 1994‚ referring...
Reviewed in issue 12/2001
Wagner, S (Die) Heilege Linde, Op 15
The plot of Die heilige Linde defies summary, or even, it appears, synopsis. Though the leading Siegfried Wagner scholar Peter...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 5/2004
Wagner Tristan und Isolde
Take the first four tracks of the second CD, the start of the Second Act, and you'll hear some of...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1992
Mozart Complete Works for Flute and Orchestra
Frans Brüggen | Helga Storck | Konrad Hünteler | Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century
Mozart’s splendid flute music provides the strongest proof that his supposed dislike for the instrument was only to justify his...
Reviewed in issue 8/1996
Schumann Fantasie; Kreisleriana
Hideyo Harada is a prize-winning pianist trained in Japan, Germany and Russia who offers a Schumann recital showing the composer...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2010
Vivaldi Sacred Works
(The) English Concert | Michael Chance | Trevor Pinnock
Trevor Pinnock and Michael Chance have devised a programme of sacred music by Vivaldi which should touch, if not melt,...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 8/1997
Mozart Violin Sonatas, Vol. 3
Chiara Banchini | Temenuschka Vesselinova
If you want a nice, polished, civilized performance of Mozart's late sonatas for piano and violin, don't buy this CD....
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 2/1995
Siegfried Jerusalem Recital
This is a pleasing enough traversal of arias for tenor by German composers from Gluck to Korngold. I entirely concur...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1992
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