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Strauss, R Josephslegende
Richard Strauss’s Josephslegende (1914) is a truly extraordinary work. It was written for Diaghilev, who wanted something sensational to follow...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 7/2007
Bartók The Wooden Prince
Bartok’s ‘dance pantomime’ The Wooden Prince is a fascinating score: fascinating for its resonances of his other two stage works...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/1997
Brahms Violin Sonatas
Edwin Fischer | Gioconda de Vito | Tito Aprea
The most sought after violin records of today are those made for HMV during the 1950s by two women artists,...
Reviewed in issue 12/1993
Agopov/Dutilleux Cello Concertos
Arto Noras | Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra | Jukka-Pekka Saraste
The star of the 76-year-old French composer Henri Dutilleux is definitely in the ascendant. Hot on the heels of a...
Reviewed in issue 10/1992
Bartók Bluebeard's Castle
Budapest Festival Orchestra | Ildikó Komlósi | László Polgár
Was Bluebeard such a bad guy? Maybe not, supposes conductor Iván Fischer in his booklet-notes for Bartok’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle....
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 13/2011
Brahms (Ein) Deutsches Requiem
Karajan recorded all these works more than once in the studio, all in better sound, yet these live recordings made...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 13/1998
Kodály Háry János - Suite; Dances of Galánta
Comparative listening has rarely been more pleasurable, and I can report straight away that Ivan Fischer and his Hungarian band...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 9/1999
Liszt: Works for piano and orchestra
Jorge Bolet | London Symphony Orchestra
Quite apart from the high quality of the performances, this is to be welcomed because we have no locally available...
Reviewed in issue 5/1985
Vivaldi (The) Four Seasons
Academy of St Martin in the Fields | Julia Fischer | Kenneth Sillito
It’s no surprise that Julia Fischer, with her looks of classic beauty, has been treated to a video début, but...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/2002
MAHLER Symphony No 1
Thierry Fischer | Utah Symphony Orchestra
Because Leonard Bernstein made his only studio recording of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony in London, the first American ensemble to set...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 10/2015
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