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Bach Cantatas, Vol. 2
I was unashamedly excited in my Quarterly Retrospect (3/94) at the prospect of hearing four more volumes of Richter's cantata...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 7/1994
Britten Billy Budd & Songs
Decca's transfers to CD of Britten's recordings of his own works gather pace and now reach what one is often...
Reviewed in issue 6/1989
Wagner Parsifal
Every recording of Parsifal has brought out the best in its interpreters, so that, while I remain loyal to the...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1986
Schubert Symphony No 9
I fear I cannot raise much enthusiasm for this issue, especially when the field contains so many good versions, several...
Reviewed in issue 9/1985
Goethe Lieder
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Karl Engel
A note in the booklet informs us that this live recording, made at the Stockholm Festival in 1970, was taken...
Reviewed in issue 3/1996
Wagner Les introuvables du Ring
This four-disc issue has been intelligently compiled to include many noted extracts from The Ring, recorded in the quarter of...
Reviewed in issue 10/1994
WAGNER Tristan und Isolde. Parsifal (Solti)
After Solti’s two Strauss one-acters with Birgit Nilsson (10/17), Decca now gives the lavish hi res reissue treatment to two...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2018
Brahms/Schumann Requiems
The new version of Brahms's Requiem is the least rewarding of the issues here. This is due to the recording...
Reviewed in issue 5/1994
SCHUBERT Chamber Works
Julia Fischer | Martin Helmchen | Piers Lane | Tasmin Little | Tim Hugh
Pentatone has packaged together the two volumes of Schubert recorded by Julia Fischer and Martin Helmchen in 2009. The performances...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue:
Wagner Das Rheingold
I shall be forgiven if I say that I feel a little like the man at a wine-tasting who, when...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1985
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