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Wagner (Die) Meistersinger von Nürnberg -Excerpts
I first heard Wagner’s comedy at the fourth and last performance of the now-legendary revival conducted by Beecham as part...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/2003
Serenade - Davis Daniels
There seems to be only one actual serenade here (Gounod's), and that sounds more like a lullaby, which it partly...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 5/2000
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No 8 SCHUBERT Piano Sonata No 21
Sarah Beth Briggs’s Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert recital tells us of a double commitment. First, in depth and consideration she...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 01/2014
Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Sviatoslav Richter
Forced to select the greatest of Richter’s performances for a two-disc set (or even several such) I’m not sure I’d...
Reviewed in issue 10/1998
Humperdinck Hänsel und Gretel
In the same way as the new CD transfer of Karajan’s Philharmonia recording of Johann Strauss’s Die Fledermaus (EMI, 10/99)...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/1999
Beethoven Orchestral Works
''Everything looked simple, the notes in place, no remarkable tricks, nothing astonishing, the tempi never heard. The interpretation was what...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 4/1995
Beethoven Choral Symphony
Late Beethoven seems to have been something of a preoccupation recently with Daniel Barenboim: the Missa solemnis, musically alive and...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 7/1994
Wagner Tristan und Isolde
Back in April (Opera reissues) Alan Blyth was welcoming the first ‘official’ CD issue of this legendary Tristan, known previously...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/2003
Beethoven Fidelio
It's hard to realize that, when this performance was recorded in Vienna in 1944 (although it didn't, of course, appear...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1994
Arleen Auger - Lieder Recital
When this recital was given in the spring of 1978‚ Auger was at the absolute height of her appreciable powers...
Reviewed in issue 9/2001
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