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Haydn Symphony No 62, Sinfonias A & B
Kevin Mallon | Toronto Chamber Orchestra
Naxos’s rather haphazardly planned Haydn symphony cycle reaches an unspectacular conclusion with three rarities: No 62 from c1780, when Haydn’s...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 1/2009
SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas D850; D;840; D894
Reviewing can be a frustrating business sometimes: recordings that bode so well on paper but disappoint in reality, or others...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2012
Ivar Andrésen (1896-1940) - II
Andresen, the template for so many Scandinavian basses, was principal at the Berlin State Opera and Bayreuth from 1927 to...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1997
Mozart Masonic Music
Freemasonry and its beliefs and sense of a human brotherhood independent of birth or wealth played an important part in...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 11/1990
Mahler Song Cycles
Dietrich Henschel | Hallé Orchestra | Kent Nagano
Anyone wanting this particular permutation of these oft-recorded songs should derive much pleasure from these performances. Henschel’s well-groomed voice and...
Reviewed in issue 8/2001
BEETHOVEN Symphony No 6 STUCKY Silent Spring
Manfred Honeck | Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Manfred Honeck’s Beethoven does not ‘speak for itself’, whatever that is supposed to mean. Indeed, this Pastoral delivers something to...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 08/2022
Schubert Complete Secular Choral Works
Of course, a lifetime, even so short a one as Schubert’s, does contain a great many days, and most of...
Reviewed in issue 8/1997
BEETHOVEN Complete wks for piano and orchestra
Howard Shelley | Opera North Chorus | Opera North Orchestra | Tasmin Little | Tim Hugh
Unlike a certain Italian maestro’s Beethoven symphony cycle (Decca, A/11), this new set of concertos has appeared with relatively little...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2012
BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 3
Leif Ove Andsnes | Mahler Chamber Orchestra
Now this is something very special, and it marks an exciting debut for Leif Ove Andsnes on Sony after his...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2012
Friedemann Herz - White Music
Taking its title from a work by Alexander Vustin, this disc presents organ music by composers from the Commonwealth of...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 5/2000
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