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BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos 30 - 32
Antti Siirala gets off to a strong start in Op 109’s first movement by virtue of his graceful phrasing and...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2012
BEETHOVEN Songs (Matthias Goerne)
Jan Lisiecki | Matthias Goerne
With so many detractors, Beethoven Lieder are bound to acquire revisionist defenders, the latest being Matthias Goerne, whose status among...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2020
Schubert Schiller Lieder
Andreas Staier | Christoph Prégardien
I can't at the moment think of a more affecting, a more beautifully sung account of that great song, Die...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1994
Leoncavallo I Pagliacci; Mascagni Cavalleria Rusticana
These two sets place us in a quandary; both have so much to offer that choice between them is extremely...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1987
Great Pianists of the 20th Century - André Watts
The inclusion of the American pianist Andre Watts in Philips’s Great Pianists of the Twentieth Century series will, I suspect,...
Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 8/1999
Bartók Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra | Zoltán Kocsis
It is fascinating to compare this 2008 recording of Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta with the one that Kocsis...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 13/2010
Mendelssohn Piano Trios
There’s no question that the Trio Wanderer are a very classy ensemble. Their previous recordings of Ravel, Shostakovich, Schubert and...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2007
Mahler Kindertotenlieder; Rückertlieder
Jean-Claude Casadesus | José Van Dam | Lille National Orchestra
It would be most unfair to judge a recording by its sleeve-note; but in this case there is, alas, a...
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 4/1987
Bartók Duke Bluebeard's Castle
Christa Ludwig | István Kertész | London Symphony Orchestra | Walter Berry
We are still waiting for an ideal Bluebeard's Castle to appear on CD, but this one has fewer drawbacks than...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 1/1989
Schubert An mein Herz
Eric Schneider | Helmut Deutsch | Matthias Goerne
As on the first volume of Matthias Goerne’s Schubert Edition, the recurrent themes here are mortality, solitude and that quintessential...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2008
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