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Liszt & Dohnányi: Works for Piano & Orchestra
Budapest Festival Orchestra | Zoltán Kocsis
These are big performances and it is probably not going too far to use the phrase 'the grand manner' of...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 1/1990
Schubert Winterreise
Peter Schreier | Sviatoslav Richter
I had great expectations of this issue, and on the whole they have been amply fulfilled. As one might expect...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1986
Dvorák & Sarasate Violin Works
Akiko Suwanai | Budapest Festival Orchestra
No one could doubt the virtuoso flair of Akiko Suwanai the moment she starts playing Sarasate’s Zigeunerweisen. This is just...
Reviewed in issue 5/2001
Schubert Complete Lieder, Vol.15
Graham Johnson | Margaret Price
Modified rapture is my response to this new addition to the Hyperion Schubert edition. Make no mistake, the rapture is...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1993
Schubert Die Winterreise
Dietrich Henschel | Irwin Gage
In the interview on page 15 Henschel tells us that as a youth he was for a while a tenor,...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/2000
Nils Mönkemeyer: Mozart with Friends
Julia Fischer | Nils Mönkemeyer | Sabine Meyer | William Youn
Mozart’s penchant for lower-voiced instruments found one of its finest chamber outlets in the Kegelstatt Trio, K498, supposedly composed during...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2016
Widor Piano Concertos 1 & 2
A mere five minutes or so of Widor’s prolific output has come to define and pigeonhole him. So popular has...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 1/2012
Schubert Winterreise
Alfred Brendel | Matthias Goerne | Peter Schreier | Sviatoslav Richter
Both Matthias Goerne and Alfred Brendel have recorded Winterreise before, Goerne with Graham Johnson, Brendel with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. Their coming...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 9/2004
Hans Hotter sings Schubert and Schumann Lieder
Well before Fischer-Dieskau began to explore the more recherche corners of Schubert's song opus, Hotter—as Fischer-Dieskau has often himself stated—had...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1988
Schubert (Die) Schöne Müllerin, D795
Justus Zeyen | Thomas Quasthoff
Should we sense the end of Die schöne Müllerin in its beginning? For Matthias Goerne, from the outset a disturbed,...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 2/2006
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