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Schubert Lieder
Hanno Müller-Brachmann | Malcolm Martineau
Still only 28, Hanno Muller-Brachmann is forging an impressive career as a concert and opera singer, and has made a...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/1998
Schubert Trout Quintet/Arpeggione Sonata
Barbara Bonney | Edgar Meyer | Emanuel Ax | Pamela Frank | Richard Young | Yo-Yo Ma
Writing within the context of Sony’s CD booklet, Mark Salzman poses the question: “If basketball can have its Dream Team...
Reviewed in issue 4/1996
Lehár Tatjana
Franz Lehár was a reluctant operetta composer. His ambitions lay in serious music. When his three-act Kuku?ka was produced in...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 12/2002
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 2
Andrew Parrott | Norrköping Symphony Orchestra | Ronald Brautigam
Beethoven’s early E flat Piano Concerto, WoO4, ought to be better known. Written around 1784 when he was 14, it...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 9/2009
Schubert/Liszt Piano Works
As I suggested in July when reviewing a recording by Annie Fischer, Schubert and Liszt make complementary rather than strange...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 9/1992
Beethoven Piano Sonatas Nos 30-32
For a recent ‘blind listening’ exercise involving graduate piano students and professionals at Denver University, I brought my advance copy...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 5/2006
Brahms Violin Concerto; Double Concerto
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra | Riccardo Chailly | Truls Mørk | Vadim Repin
This is, as you’d expect from this violinist, a disc that offers beauty and thought-provoking musicianship in equal measure. And...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 3/2009
Dvorák & Tchaikovsky Works for Cello & Orchestra
It would be hard to find a more extreme contrast of interpretation in the Dvorak Cello Concerto than that between...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 1/1990
Pletnev in Person
It’s Mikhail Pletnev. So there is another view – wrought from an intensely personal response to phrasing and structure; and...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 01/2014
Schubert Complete Lieder, Vol.17
A word first this time about the singer rather than the song. Miraculously the passing years have dealt kindly with...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1993
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