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Françaix (Les) demoiselles de la nuit; (Le) roi nu
Thierry Fischer | Ulster Orchestra
Jean Françaix’s music divides opinion, and he’s certainly not the composer who comes to mind for emotional intensity or depth....
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 5/2005
SCHUBERT Schwanengesang (Mark Padmore. Andrè Schuen)
Andrè Schuen | Daniel Heide | Mark Padmore | Mitsiko Uchida
Pairing Beethoven’s An die ferne Geliebte and Schubert’s Schwanengesang makes poetic and practical sense: though separated by only a dozen...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 02/2023
French Songs
José Van Dam | Kent Nagano | Lyon Opera Orchestra
An ingenious piece of programme-planning. These four groups of songs all date from the same period (1932 to 1943) and...
Reviewed in issue 2/1993
BRAHMS Violin Concerto. Double Concerto (T Yang, G Schwabe)
Antoni Wit | Berlin German Symphony Orchestra | Gabriel Schwabe | Tianwa Yang
The coupling of Brahms’s Violin Concerto with the Double Concerto isn’t that common on disc but they’re a natural pairing,...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2019
Mozart Le nozze di Figaro (sung in German)
Here is another historic document of importance, made available as a result of the opening of the radio archives in...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1996
Gérard Souzay Sings Lieder
Dalton Baldwin | Gérard Souzay
This two-disc set probably represents the high watermark of the partnership between Gerard Souzay and Dalton Baldwin in German Lieder,...
Reviewed in issue 11/1996
Beethoven Triple Concerto; Brahms Double Concerto
Hephzibah Menuhin | István Kertész | London Symphony Orchestra | Maurice Gendron | Yehudi Menuhin
The very name “BBC Legends” inspires high hopes, and there have been some remarkable discoveries on the label, not least...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 5/2009
BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 6-9 (Savall)
Chapeau to Jordi Savall and Le Concert des Nations. The pandemic delayed the completion of their Beethoven symphony cycle but...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2022
MAHLER Orchestral Songs
Christian Gerhaher | Kent Nagano | Montreal Symphony Orchestra
With Thomas Quasthoff retired, many would nominate Christian Gerhaher as today’s pre-eminent German Lieder baritone (the more controversial Goerne is...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2014
The Journey of Orpheus; Andreas Staier: Méditation
These two German Baroque keyboard recitals are strikingly similar in both conception and programme. Zsombor Tóth-Vajna uses the Orpheus myth...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 04/2024
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