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Hartmann Orchestral and Vocal Works
Bamberg Symphony Orchestra | Karl Anton Rickenbacher | Siegmund Nimsgern
New recordings of the music of Karl Amadeus Hartmann (1905-63) are long overdue, not because of any inadequacies in the...
Reviewed in issue 5/1994
MAHLER Symphony No 4
Antonello Manacorda | Het Gelders Orkest | Lisa Larsson
There are numerous ways to tackle Mahler’s piece of premature neo-classicism in an age which has seen more recordings of...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2015
BARTÓK Violin Concerto No 2. Concerto for Orchestra
Bela Bartók | Emmanuel Krivine | Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra | Tedi Papavrami
A great idea, this, coupling what are surely Bartók’s two greatest non-theatre large-scale orchestral works on a single CD, both...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2015
Mendelssohn in Birmingham Vol 5: Overtures
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra | Edward Gardner
This engaging disc of Mendelssohn’s overtures forms the final volume of Edward Gardner and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra’s...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2019
Bach Solo Violin Sonatas and Partitas
Alina Ibragimova’s previous recordings for Hyperion have been of 20th-century music – impressive accounts of Szymanowski, Roslavets and Hartmann. Her...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 11/2009
BRITTEN Songs & Proverbs of William Blake and other songs
Sternly, even fiercely standing its ground, the Blake cycle is one of Britten’s most unaccommodating works. Closest in its own...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/2010
Wolf Italian Songbook
Christoph Prégardien | Hilko Dumno | Julia Kleiter
One of the wonders of the age was the full house which invariably assembled at London’s Festival Hall when the...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 2/2011
Brahms (4) Serious Songs; Dvorák Requiem
Two redoubtable performances of Dvorák’s Requiem have survived in the catalogue down the years, sometimes returning in various different guises:...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 1/2007
Bachiana Two
Cologne Musica Antiqua | Reinhard Goebel
This is the second ‘Bachiana’ disc from Musica Antiqua Köln, a concept which draws its inspiration from Bach documents and...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 7/2003
Haydn Keyboard Concertos, HobXVIII/4, 6 & 11
Andreas Staier | Freiburg Baroque Orchestra | Gottfried von der Goltz
Many are the concertos attributed to Haydn but these three are undisputedly authentic. The keyboard part in No 4 is...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 4/2005
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