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Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem
The fact that Previn's name is not widely thought of in connection with either Brahms or sacred music makes his...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 6/1987
Wagner Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
The four settings of the Magnificat featured here sit comfortably together. Two of them, by Bach’s predecessor at Leipzig, Johann...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 10/1998
Mozart Piano Concertos, Vol. 1
Edwin Fischer, writing in 1929, said that it was Busoni and Richard Strauss who “first proclaimed to our generation the...
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 7/1998
STRADELLA La Forze delle Stelle
Sebastiano Baldini was a poet so well known as a writer of texts for music in his native Rome that...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 12/2014
A Tribute to Gerald Moore
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Elisabeth Schwarzkopf | Gerald Moore | Victoria de los Ángeles
Apart from the more obvious respects in which this is a unique and moving disc, it is the only one...
Reviewed in issue 1/1988
Mozart Nozze di Figaro
Whatever the merits of sets made since, this one is ensured a revered place in the pantheon of Figaro recordings,...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1997
Brahms Symphony No 1; Haydn (St Antony) Variations
The decision to begin this disc with Iván Fischer’s own arrangement for strings of Brahms’s soulful Hungarian Dance in D...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/2009
Bach Keyboard Works
Denis Matthews | Edwin Fischer | Philharmonia Orchestra | Ronald Smith
After having been recently startled almost out of my senses by Alfred Cortot's eccentric interpretation of Bach's Second Brandenburg Concerto...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 6/1994
Tippett Child of our Time
The events which inspired A Child of Our Time have a special resonance in Dresden, since the destruction in November...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 3/2008
Julia Varady sings Operatic Arias
Julia Varady can lay claim to be the most versatile, committed and technically assured lyric-dramatic soprano of the 20th century’s...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/2004
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