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Ravel Piano Concertos; Debussy Fantasy
Budapest Festival Orchestra | Zoltán Kocsis
This delectable programme couples both the Ravel concertos with Debussy’s early and cruelly neglected Fantaisie. Zoltan Kocsis is already celebrated...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/1996
Messiaen Chamber Works
Christoph Poppen | Manuel Fischer-Dieskau | Wolfgang Meyer | Yvonne Loriod
Both the DG Barenboim and this new EMI recording were made in the presence of the composer; but what that...
Reviewed in issue 3/1992
Schubert Complete Lieder, Vol.30
Graham Johnson | Matthias Görne
Where other CD booklets include a note on Winterreise – 800 words, 1,200 if you’re lucky – Graham Johnson gives...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 1/1998
Schubert/Schumann Lieder
Dalton Baldwin | Gérard Souzay | Jacqueline Bonneau
In the 1950s, though it may be hard to believe today when excellent Lieder singers proliferate, you had little choice—at...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1995
Schubert (Die) Schöne Müllerin
Eric Schneider | Matthias Goerne
Others may disagree‚ but I find Goerne’s performance of this oft-recorded work almost a travesty of Schubert’s intentions. Sharp-eyed readers...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 13/2002
Schubert Lieder
Gundula Janowitz | Irwin Gage | Ulf Rodenhäuser
The five-LP box-set from which these songs have been taken came in the wake of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau's epic survey of...
Reviewed in issue 1/1995
Stravinsky Mavra & Chamber Works
Although beautifully recorded throughout, this imaginatively planned programme was taped at two very different Amsterdam venues: Paradiso in October 1995...
Reviewed in issue 10/1998
Loewe Lieder und Balladen, Vol. 6
Cord Garben | Edith Mathis | Kurt Moll
Kurt Moll has all the attributes that go to make a fine Loewe singer, not only the splendidly flexible bass...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 5/1997
Schubert Lieder
Christoph Eschenbach | Renée Fleming
When yet another recital of Schubert Lieder appears, composed in the main of well-known songs, one looks for some special...
Reviewed in issue 4/1997
Schubert Lieder
Elisabeth Leonskaja | Matthias Goerne
“Do you know of any happy music?” Schubert once asked a friend. “I don’t.” Those words could stand as an...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 5/2008
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