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DEBUSSY Suite Bergamasque. Pour le Piano
Sarah Beth Briggs sandwiches Chopin between Debussy, an appropriate setting when you consider Debussy’s love of Chopin. Not only did...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 03/2015
Duos Romantiques
Brigitte Fassbaender | Cord Garben | Hidenori Komatsu | Kurt Moll
The principal attraction of this record is its inclusion of Liszt's O Meer im Abendstrahl, a rare and fascinating piece...
Reviewed in issue 9/1991
Beethoven Piano Concertos
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Claudio Abbado | Maurizio Pollini
Whilst Gilels was alive, Pollini was one of the heirs apparent; now that Gilels is gone he is king—in Beethoven,...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 6/1994
Beethoven Piano Concertos
Giuseppe Sinopoli | Martha Argerich | Philharmonia Orchestra
So far as Beethoven's piano music, his concertos and sonatas, is concerned we are currently in a state of some...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 9/1986
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No 4 BRUCKNER Symphony No 7 (Haitink)
Bernard Haitink | Emanuel Ax | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Towards the end of what became his adieu to the podium, Bernard Haitink led the Seventh Symphony of Bruckner with...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 10/2020
Peter Hofmann sings Wagner
Peter Hofmann | Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra | Victor Dornberger
I was perhaps a little too unenthusiastic in my reception of these performances when they appeared on LP. Hofmann may...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1985
Wolf: Goethe Lieder
Peter Schreier | Wolfgang Sawallisch
Wolf once spoke of music as a vampire, sucking out the last drop of blood from poetry: the very intensity,...
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 5/1986
BRUNEAU Requiem
The fact that Alfred Bruneau (1857-1934) studied with Massenet and had ripe operatic instincts is something that can scarcely...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 04/2014
Romantic Music for Flute and Harp
Picture a comfortably furnished salon with a well-dressed audience, raptly attentive to an evening of musical titbits, profoundly unlikely to...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 12/1994
Martha Argerich & Friends: Live from Lugano 2014
Even more than some years’ instalments, Lugano 2014 is a celebration not just of the inimitable Argentinian but also of...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2015
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