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Schumann Lieder, Romanzen und Balladen
“Die beiden Grenadiere” apart, Schumann’s ballads crop up too rarely in recital and on disc. All the more welcome, then,...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 13/1997
Beethoven Complete Piano Sonatas
Writing a warm if inevitably parti pris appreciation of Stephen Kovacevich’s nine-CD and 12-year project, producer John Fraser speaks of...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/2004
Schubert Recital
Malcolm Martineau | Simon Keenlyside
Simon Keenlyside is the best baritone singer and interpreter of Schubert this country has ever had and is fully the...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1994
Janácek (5) Operas; Sinfonietta; Taras Bulba
No one who heard young Charlie Mackerras conduct Kát’a Kabanová at Sadler’s Wells in 1951 is likely to have forgotten...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/2005
Brahms and Liszt - Lieder
Justus Zeyen | Thomas Quasthoff
Quasthoff's recordings to date have appeared on RCA Red Seal, but this new coupling of Brahms and Liszt songs marks...
Reviewed by hcanning in issue: 6/2000
Peter Schreier sings Beethoven Lieder
Gisela Franke | Peter Schreier | Walter Olbertz
This CD is drawn from a series of LPs Schreier made for Telefunken in the mid 1970s, available briefly in...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1989
Christa Ludwig - A Tribute: 70 Years
Those who appreciate song interpretation were spoilt for choice in the 1960s and 1970s. There were at least five lower...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1999
JS BACH Arias and Sinfonias (Benjamin Appl)
There are no concepts, no gimmicks and just a single-word title – ‘Bach’ – for Benjamin Appl’s latest release. This...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 11/2018
R. Strauss Capriccio
This third version of Capriccio makes the work three times lucky on disc. Recorded two years ago, 22 years after...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1996
Schubert Die Schöne Müllerin
Jörg Demus | Wolfgang Holzmair
We already have an embarrassment of riches on CD in performances of this cycle, but Holzmair, a name new to...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1989
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