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Bach & Buxtehude Cantatas
Of all the Bach cantatas Richter recorded, none have appeared in so many different releases (I have four with different...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 6/2000
Weber Lieder
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Hartmut Höll
''In my opinion the first and most sacred duty of a song-writer is to observe the maximum of fidelity to...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1993
MOZART Symphonies Nos 1,4, 6, 35 & 38
Adám Fischer | Danish National Chamber Orchestra
Interesting that at the start of the eight-year-old Mozart’s First Symphony’s opening Molto allegro, the marking for the first two...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2013
Melodramen
Burkhard Kehring | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Melodrama has always been a difficult medium, effective at key moments of operatic tension (Fidelio, Der Freischütz) and even in...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 7/2005
Schubert Winterreise
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Klaus Billing
Professor Elsa Schiller, having suffered terribly during the war as a Jew, was in charge of music at RIAS (Berlin...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1990
Lutoslawski Symphony 3, etc.
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Witold Lutoslawski
The splendid recording of these works by John Shirley-Quirk and the Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen won for...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 1/1987
Wolf Lieder
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Munich Radio Orchestra | Stefan Soltesz
So we thought, did we, that he had recorded everything. Not quite, it seems, for these orchestral songs of Wolf...
Reviewed in issue 10/1992
Zemlinsky Lyrische Symphonie
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Julia Varady | Lorin Maazel
A 44-minute CD is not terribly good value for money. The rival recording of Zemlinsky's Lyric Symphony has a baritone...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 6/1987
Puccini Gianni Schicchi
A recording of Gianni Schicchi in German might seem to make little sense (at least outside Germany), were it not...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/2001
Schubert Winterreise
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Gerald Moore
This previously unissued live recording may be from 50 years ago but it sounds as arresting as it must have...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/2005
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