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Review of RÖNTGEN 3 Viola Sonatas (Herbert Kefer)

RÖNTGEN 3 Viola Sonatas (Herbert Kefer)

Herbert Kefer | Markus Schirmer

Nimbus

From everything we read about his long life, to a delightful photo in which he sits happily with Mr and...

Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 05/2025

Review of SAINT-SAËNS Samson et Delila (Pappano)

SAINT-SAËNS Samson et Delila (Pappano)

Alan Pingarrón | Antonio Pappano | Blaise Malaba | Chuma Sijeqa | Elina Garanca | Goderdzi Janelidze | Lukasz Golinski | Royal Opera House Chorus, Covent Garden | Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden | SeokJong Baek

Opus Arte

Richard Jones’s production of Samson et Dalila polarised opinion when it opened at Covent Garden in 2022. I didn’t see...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2024

Review of Transcriptions of Bach's Chaconne

Transcriptions of Bach's Chaconne

Gordon Fergus-Thompson

ASV

There is, traditionally, no point in arguing about tastes; but to my mind it's a pity that this disc bears...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 10/1991

Review of Schubert Songs without Words

Schubert Songs without Words

Daria Hovora | Mischa Maisky

DG

The paradox here is that the main item – or, rather, the longest work on the disc and the only...

Reviewed in issue 11/1996

Review of La Casa del diavolo

La Casa del diavolo

(Il) Giardino Armonico Ensemble | Enrico Onofri | Giovanni Antonini | Ottavio Dantone

Astrée Naïve

The last movement of Gluck’s ballet Don Juan (1761), which the composer recycled 13 years later in Orphée et Eurydice,...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 8/2005

Review of Brahms Works for Cello & Piano

Brahms Works for Cello & Piano

Juhani Lagerspetz | Truls Mørk

Simax

This CD from the Norwegian cellist Truls Mork, winner of the 1983 Cassado Competition in Florence, was singled out for...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 8/1989

Review of Tom Kerstens - Danza!

Tom Kerstens - Danza!

Tom Kerstens

BGS Records

In the booklet-notes Tom Kerstens says he ‘could not resist indulging in the more light-hearted side of the repertoire’. The...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 2/2006

Review of Harwood Complete Organ Works, Volume 1

Harwood Complete Organ Works, Volume 1

Adrian Partington

Priory

Having recorded the complete organ works of Messrs Whitlock‚ Howells and Krebs‚ Priory has turned its microphones to the English...

Reviewed in issue 3/2002

Review of Yundi Li - The Young Romantic

Yundi Li - The Young Romantic

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Seiji Ozawa | Yundi Li

Euroarts

Classical artists usually earn a single name on billboards by their eminence (Heifetz, Horowitz, Solomon, Liberace). Yundi Li, now rebranded...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 6/2010

Review of Schubert Duets, Trios & Quartets

Schubert Duets, Trios & Quartets

Berlin RIAS Chamber Choir | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Elly Ameling | Gerald Moore | Horst Laubenthal | Janet Baker | Peter Schreier

Galleria

When Fischer-Dieskau and Gerald Moore completed their work on the DG Schubert Song Edition, they turned to these duets, trios...

Reviewed in issue 10/1992

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