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Edwin Fischer plays Schubert
Edwin Fischer was, like his friend and contemporary Wilhelm Furtwangler, an inspirational musician who fared best when the composer's spirit...
Reviewed in issue 5/1993
Fischer plays Beethoven
Edwin Fischer | Philharmonia Orchestra | Wilhelm Furtwängler
When it was first issued on LP the Fischer/Furtwangler Emperor Concerto attracted only moderate praise. This may have been due...
Reviewed in issue 3/1988
Edwin Fischer plays Schubert
Addressing his students before the start of his legendary Lucerne masterclasses Edwin Fischer said, “I hope you have already forgotten...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 3/1997
Annie Fischer Collection - Schubert/Liszt
In the April 1988 issue of Gramophone I traced a recorded history of the Liszt Sonata, lamenting the absence from...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 7/1992
DORÁTI Der Künder (Fischer-Dieskau)
'Composing conductors are a suspicious lot,’ Antal Dorati remarked in his 1979 memoir Notes from Seven Decades, which placed him...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2022
Fischer Harpsichord Works
Though considered long after his death in 1746 as one of the ''most considerable keyboard players of his time'', we...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 7/1993
BRAHMS Symphony No 3. Serenade No 2 (Fischer)
The Third Symphony’s germinal F-A-F motif is grandly stated at the outset, yet also sprung with a momentum to sweep...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2021
HAYDN Symphonies (Antonini; Fischer)
Adám Fischer | Basel Chamber Orchestra | Danish Chamber Orchestra | Giovanni Antonini
The latest volume of Giovanni Antonini’s ever-enticing Haydn cycle takes its title from Symphony No 53, L’Impériale, and couples that...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW23
Schwarzkopf, Seefried and Fischer-Dieskau
As the archives of the BBC and ORTF yield up forgotten TV broadcasts, we are being offered ever more examples...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/2004
SAINT-SAËNS Symphony No 2. Symphony in F (Fischer)
Madeline Adkins | Thierry Fischer | Utah Symphony Orchestra
Why do Saint-Saëns’s youthful symphonies get such a bad rap? Even Roger Nichols apologises more than is necessary for Urbs...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2019
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