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Beethoven Piano Concerto No 5
Claudio Arrau | Colin Davis | Staatskapelle Dresden
The Arrau/Davis Emperor is set fair to be to CD what the Fischer/Furtwangler was to mono LP: an inspiring reading...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 4/1986
Holst (The) Planets for Four Hands
Holst’s The Planets is one of the wonders of English music. Less well known is its original two-piano score. Completely...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 6/2011
Teresa Berganza - Mozart Arias
Berganza's role in Decca's Opera Gala is an exclusively Mozartian one. Here she is, from the Cherubino, Sesto, Fiordiligi (and...
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 4/1993
Schubert Lieder
Gérard Wyss | Wolfgang Holzmair
All Holzmair’s familiar gifts in Lieder are brought to bear on this absorbing selection of Goethe settings. Nowhere are they...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/2006
Leoncavallo Pagliacci
The self-conscious 1970s and ’80s, afraid of excess or sentiment, were no golden age for performances of Leoncavallo’s deceptively rich...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 7/2008
Mozart: Concert Arias
Six years separate these two recordings: years in which Dame Kiri Te Kanawa has refined her Mozartian style, and developed...
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 10/1988
Honegger (Une) Cantate de Noël
The works collected here cover the full range of Honegger’s mature career, from the volatile “mimed symphony” Horace victorieux, his...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 1/2009
Mendelssohn; Schubert Piano Trios
The Smetana Trio needs no introduction – it’s one of those ensembles whose historical reputation is such that it changes...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 13/2010
Goethe's Harper Songs and other lieder
This thoughtfully constructed programme opens with some of the best of Wolf's Goethe-Lieder, has the Michelangelo settings satisfyingly interpolated, and...
Reviewed in issue 4/1992
Schubert Schwanengesang
Bryn Terfel | Malcolm Martineau
Here is an amazing achievement for one so young. There were many wise heads (not mine, I regret to say)...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1992
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