Mahler Symphony No 8

Bavarian Radio Chorus | Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Donald Grobe | Edith Mathis | Erna Spoorenberg | Franz Crass | Júlia Hamari | Martina Arroyo | Munich Motet Choir

Kubelik's recording of Mahler's Eighth Symphony did not receive too many accolades when it first appeared on LP in 1971....

Reviewed in issue 2/1987

BRUCKNER Symphony No 7

Budapest Festival Orchestra

Right from the opening pp tremolando you can tell that as an interpretation this is going to be something off...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2014

Dvorák Legends etc

Budapest Festival Orchestra

Dvorak’s 1881 Legends are like Brahmsian Slavonic Dances – intimate music, mostly reflective and invariably light-hearted. One might also think...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2000

Mozart Complete Piano Concertos; Haydn Concerto in D

A tribute to true musical greatness, APR’s reissue of Edwin Fischer’s complete Mozart studio recordings dating from 1933-47 is cause...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 7/2010

Werner Hollweg Lieder Recital

Roman Ortner | Werner Hollweg

This is a superb disc. Nothing I have heard from Hollweg in the past had in any way prepared me...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1989

Humperdinck Königskinder

Armin Jordan | Detlef Roth | Diana Schmid | Fabrice Mantegna | Hans-Otto Weiss | Henk Neven | Jaco Huijpen | Jonas Kaufmann | Latvian Radio Choir | Marc Dostert

It is good to welcome a new recording of this seriously neglected opera. While it can never match the mastery...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 13/2006

Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies

Budapest Festival Orchestra

Fischer’s idiomatic foray into this well-worn repertoire is distinguished by tonal lustre and high spirits, with the authentic gipsy violin...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 7/1998

Haydn Symphonies, Vol. 3

Adám Fischer | Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra

For all the spectacular upturn in Haydn’s fortunes over the last few decades, his pre-London symphonies are still high-risk territory...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 1/1998

Gottlob Frick: Opera Arias

Arthur Grüber | Berislav Klobucar | Berlin City Opera Chorus | Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Berlin Staatskapelle | Berlin State Opera Chorus | Berlin Symphony Orchestra | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Ernst Krukowski | Franz Konwitschny

You would look far to find a disc of a bass singing with better technique or more character than Frick...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1998

Haydn Symphonies, Vol. 6

Adám Fischer | Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra

Tackling their huge task of recording the complete Haydn symphonies, Adam Fischer and the Austro-Hungarian orchestra are making a sort...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1995