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Kokkonen Cello Concerto; Symphonies Nos 3 & 4
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra | Marko Ylönen | Sakari Oramo
There cannot be many compositions from the past 40 years that have three competing recordings all currently available. That one...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 4/2008
Schubert Winterreise
Daniel Barenboim | Thomas Quasthoff
As we know from his fine CD version, Thomas Quasthoff is a master of this cycle, his command of word...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/2006
Puccini (La) Bohème; Madama Butterfly; Tosca; Turandot
When three out of the four Puccini recordings in this bargain box are among the finest versions ever made, and...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 13/2003
SCHUBERT Impromptus (Ronald Brautigam)
Having completed his Beethoven project, Ronald Brautigam now turns his attention to Schubert, and this, his first foray into his...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2023
MOZART Le nozze di Figaro, K492
Though the emotional temperature of this Marriage of Figaro video runs high, warming up to it may take a while....
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2012
Schubert Complete Lieder, Vol. 1
Graham Johnson has explained, in his interview with Hilary Finch on page 532, the aims and purpose of his enormously...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1988
Gerhard Hüsch Sings
Gerhard Hüsch | Hanns Udo Müller
After all these years Husch's performances of these three cycles remain a benchmark by which others come to be judged....
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1992
Alfred Deller Vanguard Edition, Vol 2 - Purcell
The cordial welcome which greeted the first volume of Vanguard’s reissued recordings of Alfred Deller and his consort (3/09) can...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/2009
Musica Baltica
Cologne Musica Antiqua | Reinhard Goebel
This is one of Musica Antiqua Koln’s most diverting and original projects of late, tracing with illumination and alacrity the...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 8/1999
Schubert Complete Lieder, Vol.19
Felicity Lott | Graham Johnson
''The miracle of Suleika I is that it manages to be both epic and intensely personal—we are drawn to the...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1994
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