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Review of Romantic choral works

Romantic choral works

Hanover Girls' Choir | Karl Bergemann | Ludwig Rutt

Deutsche Harmonia Mundi

The Hanover Girls' Choir are a little over 50 strong and sing with a sweet, well-disciplined style. The singers are,...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 3/1987

Review of Wagner (Die) Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Wagner (Die) Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Alfred Muzzarelli | Anton Dermota | Arturo Toscanini | Carl Bissuti | Eduard Frisch | Georg Maikl | Hans Hermann Nissen | Henk Noort | Herbert Alsen | Hermann Gallos

Andante

This legendary performance from the 1937 Salzburg Festival has circulated for years in inferior, not to say intolerable, sound. Using...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 13/2003

Review of New Music with Guitar, Vol. 1

New Music with Guitar, Vol. 1

David Starobin | Janice Felty | Karen Lindquist | Patrick Mason | Peter Press | Richard Frisch | Rosalind Rees | Susan Jolles | Susan Palma

Bridge

What the guitar suffers from is not so much a shortage of worthwhile repertory as one of players who will...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 8/1987

Review of Domingo and Perlman Together

Domingo and Perlman Together

Carol Vaness | Eugene Kohn | Itzhak Perlman | Jonathan Tunick | Munich Radio Orchestra | New York Studio Orchestra | Plácido Domingo

EMI

How odd, you might think, to have a highlights disc of Verdi's Nabucco dedicated to the tenor who sings the...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1992

Review of Mozart Die Entführung aus dem Serail: Harmoniemusik

Mozart Die Entführung aus dem Serail: Harmoniemusik

(Les) Musiciens du Louvre | Amadeus Wind Ensemble | Marc Minkowski

Florilegium

You can, of course, buy CDs of Die Entfuhrung and Don Giovanni. I say that because the whole point of...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 11/1990

Review of BRAHMS The Complete Songs Vol 7

BRAHMS The Complete Songs Vol 7

Benjamin Appl | Graham Johnson

Hyperion

For the latest in Hyperion’s Brahms series, Benjamin Appl is reunited with Graham Johnson, restoring a combination that proved so...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2018

Review of Brahms Volkslieder; Zigeunerlieder

Brahms Volkslieder; Zigeunerlieder

Anthony Spiri | Folkwang Guitar Duo | Marjana Lipovsek

Orfeo

The novelty of this disc is the contribution of the Folkwang Guitar Duo‚ who provide the accompaniment for half the...

Reviewed in issue 10/2001

Review of Brahms German Folksongs

Brahms German Folksongs

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Elisabeth Schwarzkopf | Gerald Moore

EMI

Here is another classic EMI record from the not-too-distant past happily remastered for CD. Of course, Volkslieder is something of...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1989

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