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Fritz Wunderlich sings Opera Arias
These extracts, culled from the radio archives, will be manna to the many admirers of Fritz Wunderlich. They derive from...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1989
Irmgard Seefried Salzburg Recital, 1957
What can one say afresh in summing up the achievements of this superlative artist? Best perhaps to quote her coeval...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1993
Rarities of Piano Music 2014
As always, ‘Rarities of Piano Music at Schloss vor Husum’ tickles the fancy, allowing pianists off the leash to delight...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/2015
Wagner Parsifal
On April 1st, 1961, the Vienna State Opera gave its first post-war performance of Wagner’s last music drama. It was...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1999
BRUCH; SCHUMANN Violin Concertos (Niek Baar)
Christoph Poppen | German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra | Niek Baar
The Schumann doesn’t get played nearly enough – and, as he reveals in the booklet notes, it couldn’t be closer...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: AW2024
Sarah Connolly - Songs of Love and Loss
Sarah Connolly’s beautifully sung Frauenliebe und -leben often called to mind Janet Baker’s early recording with Martin Isepp (Regis). From...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2008
'The Young Schumann' (Charles Owen)
Charles Owen, professor of piano at the Guildhall and co-artistic director of the London Piano Festival, presents the latest addition...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 02/2025
Tchaikovsky Syms; Concertos; Ballet suites
Karajan was unquestionably a great Tchaikovsky conductor. Yet although he recorded the last three symphonies many times, he did not...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/2000
Beethoven String Quartets Nos 9 & 10
This was to have been the first recording in a new cycle of the Beethoven quartets from the Amadeus for...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 3/1989
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas
Although the Italian pianist Maria Tipo has never made a big name in this country, on the continent she is...
Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 11/1987
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