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Schumann: Lieder
Hermann Prey | Leonard Hokanson
Here we have an intelligently planned recital, entirely devoted to Schumann's settings of Heine. Its execution leaves little to be...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1986
Strauss, R Enoch Arden
The traditions of speaking with and over music gained a new lease of life in 19th-century bourgeois drawing rooms, fed...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 12/2007
MAHLER Symphony No 3 (Haitink)
It is only 10 years since Bernard Haitink launched the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s in-house label with a not dissimilar account...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 08/2017
Martin Orchestral Works, Volume 1
London Philharmonic Orchestra | Matthias Bamert
As a glance at the comparisons listed above shows, we are well served at present for the Concerto for seven...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 7/1994
Mendelssohn Piano Trios Nos 1 and 2, Opp 49 & 66
Daniel Müller-Schott | Jonathan Gilad | Julia Fischer
Chamber music with star players doesn’t always work: lack of rehearsal time or oversized egos can often lead to performances...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2006
Beethoven Piano Concertos; Five Piano Sonatas
With an 11-CD reissue Decca offers a 60th birthday salute to one of the greatest artists of our time. Together...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 3/2006
Bartók Concerto for Orchestra; The Miraculous Mandarin
(Royal) Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam | Riccardo Chailly
No one dispenses musical decadence as exquisitely as Riccardo Chailly. In The Miraculous Mandarin‚ at the point where the hapless...
Reviewed in issue 1/2002
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 5
Claudio Arrau | Colin Davis | Staatskapelle Dresden
This is an exception account of the Emperor Piano Concerto, one which strikes me as being profoundly and sensitively attuned...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 4/1986
Schubert Complete Lieder, Vol.13
Chorus | Graham Johnson | Marie McLaughlin | Thomas Hampson
These two new issues in the Hyperion Schubert Edition are linked by the fact that each singer makes guest appearances...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1992
Wolf Italienisches Liederbuch
Barbara Bonney | Geoffrey Parsons | Håkan Hagegård
Recent versions of this work haven't challenged the performances listed above by a superb generation of Wolf interpreters. Now we...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1994
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