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Rachmaninov Piano concerto 3
Jorge Bolet | London Symphony Orchestra
Though always immersed in Rachmaninov's music, I have found it difficult to come to terms with this interpretation, and perhaps...
Reviewed in issue 9/1983
Schubert Winterreise
Carl-Heinz Müller | Geoffrey Parsons | Helle Müller-Thiemens | Olaf Bär
I should have learnt long ago how foolish it is to make an 'outright recommendation' in these pages, because as...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1989
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No3. Etudes Tableaux
Cristina Ortiz | Philharmonia Orchestra
Rachmaninov may have once called this ''a concerto for elephants'', but that has not prevented pianists of more modest physique...
Reviewed in issue 9/1991
MAHLER Das Lied von der Erde (Gerhild Romberger. Lucile Richardot)
Listening to Iván Fischer’s account of Das Lied von der Erde so soon after nominating Jurowski’s Berlin/Pentatone recording for Recording...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: AW20
Strauss R Elektra
Hard to realise that in 1953, when this Elektra was broadcast from Cologne, no recording of the work existed, probably...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/2001
Pärt Orient and Occident
Swedish Radio Choir | Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra | Tõnu Kaljuste
This programme represents a retreat from the remote cloister where for so long Arvo Pärt invited us to join him‚...
Reviewed in issue 13/2002
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Thierry Fischer | Utah Symphony Orchestra
This disc contains premiere recordings of the three works commissioned by the Utah Symphony to celebrate its 75th birthday, and...
Reviewed by Kate Molleson in issue: 07/2016
Schubert Lieder
Following immediately on from Schreier's arresting interpretation of Schwanengesang for Decca, the first of a projected series of the song...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1990
Klemperer conducts Mendelssohn/Liszt/J.Strauss II
Annie Fischer's performance of the Liszt concerto combines perfection and brilliance of technique with poetic insight and a very distinct,...
Reviewed in issue 9/1992
Schubert (Die) Winterreise
Michael Volle | Roman Trekel | Stefan Laux | Ulf Bästlein | Ulrich Eisenlohr
Setting up as a viable and much cheaper alternative to the Hyperion Schubert Edition, Naxos proposes, like its coeval, to...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/2000
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