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Songs with Guitar
Elizabeth Parcells | Felix Justen
The common factor that links four of the composers in this programme is that they all lived and worked for...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 5/1992
Beethoven String Quartets 1 & 4
The first virtue to strike home about this CD was its superb sound quality, warm and clear with plenty of...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: /2000
Dream Catchers
This release’s ‘masters in miniature’ subtext is a tad deceptive. The brief movements encompassing Schumann’s Carnaval and Ravel’s Valses nobles...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2017
Anna Tsybuleva: Fantasien
Piano fantasias may have started off as essentially improvisational in nature, yet the genre evolved into something less clearly defined,...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2017
Beethoven Orchestral Works
Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Fritz Reiner
These were sensational recordings in their day. Technically, they still have an enormous power and presence, though digital remastering picks...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/1992
Beethoven Fidelio
The Böhm version, available for more than 10 years on Preiser (8/94) – in sound that the Andante hardly, if...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/2005
Wagner Siegfried
The Decca engineers have done it again. Here is a more truthful, realistic acoustic than that we have heard on...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1984
WAGNER Die Walküre
The first release on disc of this 1961 broadcast is a potent reminder of the strengths (and quirks) of Georg...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 04/2015
BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 2 & 7
Karl Böhm | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
It’s unusual, if not unwelcome, to find a company including a cartoon of one of its conductors in a CD...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 01/2016
Works for Violin and Orchestra
Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, Bremen | Philharmonia Orchestra | Thomas Zehetmair
It was a good idea to place together music for violin and orchestra by these three composers who, with Haydn,...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 9/1992
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