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SAINT-SAËNS Piano Concerto No 2 (Nelson Freire)
Adám Fischer | Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra | Nelson Freire
Nelson Freire hasn’t made a commercial recording of Saint-Saëns’s Second Piano Concerto, which makes this radio recording from 1986 all...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2017
Beethoven Symphonies 4 & 7
Philippe Herreweghe | Royal Flemish Philharmonic Orchestra
The one surprising fact about this coupling is that, unless I’ve been remiss in not spotting them in a previous...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2011
SCHUBERT Piano Sonata. Moments Musicaux
With this programme, where concentrated lyricism is sandwiched between two storming masterpieces, Konstanze Eickhorst makes her bid as an inclusive...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 01/2014
Schubert Complete Lieder, Vol.22
There is nothing very much in the first dozen tracks here to hold the imagination as song or interpretation with...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1995
Mozart Così fan tutte
German theatre director Claus Guth is on quite a roll with his three modern-dress Salzburg Mozart/da Ponte productions and his...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 3/2011
Ferenc Fricsay - A Portrait
Roughly half of this set is strongly recommendable—and even the half that isn't is still well worth hearing. Ferenc Fricsay...
Reviewed in issue 11/1994
SALLINEN Chamber Music
In his Piano Trio, completed in 2010, Aulis Sallinen imagined ‘the sensuous world of a painter going blind’. It seems...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2015
Verdi La Traviata
The EMI Double Forte series has always been excellent value, a pair of CDs being offered for the cost of...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 9/2000
Works for Cello and Orchestra
Arto Noras | Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra | Jukka-Pekka Saraste
It's refreshing to come across a programme which is just that bit different, and I don't think I have previously...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 7/1993
Mozart Così fan tutte
Since 1934 when Glyndebourne revived this then-neglected work and began its run of success it has presented a succession of...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/2007
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