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Romantic works for flute and harp
Aline Brewer | Helmut Deutsch | Jennifer Stinton | Josef Protschka
Protschka is a Czech-born tenor, who now sings with the Cologne Opera and has made his home in Germany. Record...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1987
Folk Stories: Songs by Beethoven, Britten & Mahler
Cora Burggraaf | Floris Mijnders | Jan Vogel | Liza Ferschtman | Simon Lepper
Somewhere between the promising inception of this project and the final disc, significant elements have been lost. In her booklet-notes,...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 05/2013
Beethoven Lieder
András Schiff | Peter Schreier
This fifth and final offering is a fitting close to the remarkable work for Decca of this superbly matched duo....
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1996
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas, Opp 106 & 111 (Angela Hewitt)
Now that Angela Hewitt has concluded her Beethoven sonata cycle with two of its ‘biggest guns’, it appears that she...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2022
Bach Violin Concertos
David Greenberg | Jeanne Lamon | Linda Melsted | Tafelmusik
Although only three of Bach’s violin concertos (BWV1041-3) have been preserved in their original form there were undoubtedly a great...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 2/1996
Mendelssohn Midsummer Night's Dream
André Previn | Christine Cairns | Eva Lind | Vienna Jeunesse Choir | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
It seems remarkable that Andre Previn should choose to re-record Mendelssohn's incidental music and yet offer it relatively incomplete, when...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 6/1987
Mahler Lieder (orch Berio)
David Lutz | Luciano Berio | Philharmonia Orchestra | Thomas Hampson
Hard on the heels of Schmidt's account of Berio's arrangements of the Lieder und Gesange (see below) comes this version...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1994
Alastair Miles: Lieder by Wolf & Brahms
Alastair Miles | Marie-Noëlle Kendall
Alastair Miles’s gravely sonorous bass is finely attuned to Brahms’s and Wolf’s vocal swansongs, linked by their themes of human...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2014
DVOŘÁK Symphonies 7 & 8
Roger Norrington | Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra
Some expected Norrington attributes (uncluttered textures, minimal vibrato, etc) help focus the bare essentials of both masterpieces, the Seventh emerging...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue:
MAHLER Symphony No 9
Myung-Whun Chung | Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra
Regular readers will have their own pantheon of classic Mahler Ninths. My list is headed by Abbado and Bernstein. Yours...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 08/2015
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