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Mozart Piano Concertos 22 & 25
Edwin Fischer | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Recordings of live Salzburg Festival performances by Edwin Fischer are something of a rarity, which is why time and care...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 1/1997
Mozart (Die) Zauberflöte
Memory has a trick of losing the good, the nice and the normal, and retaining only the oddities, which then...
Reviewed by jswain in issue: 9/1986
Mozart & Verdi Requiems
Apart from their subject matter these two works make odd bedfellows. However, there is a reason, if a negative one,...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1990
TCHAIKOVSKY Concerto for Violin. Sérénade mélancolique
James Ehnes | Sydney Symphony Orchestra | Vladimir Ashkenazy
James Ehnes’s programme, complementing the Concerto with the rest of Tchaikovsky’s solo violin music, follows Julia Fischer, who issued exactly...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue:
Xenakis in het Orgelpark
Now it has been scientifically proved that chaos keeps the world rational, anybody inhabiting that world, who is sensitive to...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 12/2012
Haydn Symphonies Nos 55-69
Adám Fischer | Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra
It is now ten years since the initial instalment in this Nimbus series appeared (12/89), containing the London Symphonies, and...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/1999
Mozart Violin Concertos Nos 1, 2 and 5
Julia Fischer | Netherlands Chamber Orchestra | Yakov Kreizberg
This follow-up to Julia Fischer's widely acclaimed disc of Mozart's Concertos Nos 3 and 4 confirms the 23-year-old as a...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 1/2007
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 4
Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra
Iván Fischer nails his very individual colours to the mast from the opening fanfares (horns and bassoons), with tiny rhetorical...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 1/2005
Fiesta Criolla
Gabriel Castagna | Nora Chastain | Württemberg Philharmonic Orchestra
Having already issued vivid recordings for Chandos of relatively well known works by Piazzolla, Ginastera and others, Castagna now turns...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2011
BRAHMS Symphony No 2
Clemens Romijn’s booklet-essay for this new Budapest recording of Brahms’s Second Symphony talks of the work as a ‘paragon of...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 01/2015
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