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SCHUBERT Winterreise
Michel Dalberto | Stephan Genz
Genz and Dalberto set out their stall in the opening ‘Gute Nacht’: a brisk, inexorably trudging tempo, sparse staccato textures,...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 01/2016
MENDELSSOHN Piano Trios (Trio Metral)
This disc by the Paris Conservatoire-trained Métral siblings marks their debut on disc. The two Mendelssohn trios are an apt...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2019
Bach Das Wohltemperirte Clavier, Book 1
Admirers of Canadian pianist Angela Hewitt’s lightly articulated and elegantly phrased Bach playing will have been waiting eagerly for her...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 11/1998
Beethoven Edition, Vol.20 - Historical Recordings
The first CD in the set couples the famous 1913 Nikisch account of the Fifth Symphony, the first complete recording...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 13/1997
Ponchielli Gioconda (La)
This is a production of the type still called conventional‚ though its kind is rapidly becoming so rare as to...
Reviewed in issue 3/2002
Schubert Lieder
Elisabeth Schumann | Elizabeth Coleman | George Reeves | Gerald Moore | Karl Alwin | Reginald Kell
The kernel of the recitals of Elisabeth Schumann (1888-1952), a much-loved Sophie and Mozart singer in her day, was very...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/2003
SCHUBERT 'Stimme der Liebe'
Ian Partridge | Jennifer Partridge
It comes as a shock to realise how few commercial recordings the Partridges, brother and sister, made together. Once upon...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2023
Bolero
This is the third recording of Lohengrin taken live from Bayreuth—the first, on Decca, dating from 1953, which has much...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1984
SIBELIUS The Tempest (Kamu)
This is welcome indeed: the first commercial recording of non-operatic repertoire from the world’s oldest orchestra for nearly 20 years...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 01/2023
Beethoven Edition, Vol. 3 - Orchestral & Stage Works
Beethoven writing occasional pieces and ballet or incidental music is the composer on automatic pilot or, to put it another...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 13/1997
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