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SCHUBERT Winterreise (Roderick Williams)
Iain Burnside | Roderick Williams
With 100-plus Winterreise recordings on the market, what place could any newcomer occupy in the company of Richard Tauber, Lotte...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2021
Wagner Der Ring des Nibelungen
It all depends what you want from a recording of Wagner’s cycle. Each of these performances offers a very different...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1998
Liszt Faust Symphony
Berlin Deutsche Oper Chorus | Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Daniel Barenboim | Plácido Domingo
Barenboim’s is the most overtly Wagnerian account of the Faust Symphony in the current catalogue: a sumptuous production, frequently excitable...
Reviewed in issue 4/1999
Schubert/Schumann Lieder
When AP reviewed the Schumann offerings 30 years ago, he commented that it was a pleasure to have another interpreter...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1993
Schubert Complete Lieder, Vol.29
Graham Johnson | Marjana Lipovsek | Nathan Berg
In terms of content and performance, this is – with a single exception – one of the most rewarding CDs...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1997
Schubert Schwanengesang
Andreas Staier | Christoph Prégardien
Planning a CD programme around Schwanengesang is always tricky. The vastly experienced duo of Christoph Prégardien and Andreas Staier here...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 4/2009
SCHUBERT Wanderers Nachtlied
Eric Schneider | Helmut Deutsch | Matthias Goerne
Schubert is once reported to have exclaimed to a friend, ‘Do you know any cheerful music? I don’t.’ His alleged...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2014
Schubert Complete Lieder, Vol. 2
Graham Johnson | Stephen Varcoe
Graham Johnson has been conducting an almost single-handed crusade for Schubert's vast ballad-settings. With his account, in the company of...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1989
Great Singers of Our Century - Hans Hotter
With retrospectives imminent from Music & Arts (two CDs, 1942-45) and Testament (three CDs, 1946-57), containing studio performances either unpublished...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/2000
Schubert Piano Works
Liszt – a shrewd and generous critic – saw Schubert as “the most poetic of all composers”. Such brief tribute...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 9/1996
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