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(The) Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto; Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
Gil Shaham | Lan Shui | Singapore Symphony Orchestra
The Butterfly Lovers achieved instant success at its first performance in Shanghai in 1959, only to be banned during the...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 12/2007
Wagner Lohengrin
The return of this renowned performance to the catalogue is very welcome. For years, until the appearance of Kempe's 1964...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1994
SCHUMANN; MAHLER Lieder (Florian Boesch)
Florian Boesch | Malcolm Martineau
An oddly muted, inconsistent release here. Florian Boesch’s German Lieder recordings have been so strong, one is inclined to snap up...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2017
JS BACH Piano Music
Claire-Marie Le Guay is a pianist of broad interests, with repertoire ranging right up to the present day, but this...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2015
Hanna-Elisabeth Müller: Reine de Coeur
Hanna-Elisabeth Muller | Juliane Ruf
For her debut recital album, the German soprano Hanna-Elisabeth Müller covers a century of song from late Schumann, via early...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2020
JANÁCEK The Cunning Little Vixen (Debus)
Plenty of live performances, a handful of DVDs – but the long-term presence in the record catalogues of two much-admired...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 06/2019
Ravel Piano Concertos; Honegger Concertino etc
Charles Dutoit | Jean-Yves Thibaudet | Montreal Symphony Orchestra
The Kocsis/Fischer Philips disc of the Ravel concertos is now followed by another, though with an even more ear-tickling coupling...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/1996
Bach Cantatas Nos 56, 82 and 158
Berlin Baroque Soloists | Berlin RIAS Chamber Choir | Rainer Kussmaul | Thomas Quasthoff
If Bach had heard Thomas Quasthoff he might have considered making his Evangelist a baritone. Such is the telling presence...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 1/2005
(The) Violin of the Century
Various Artists | Yehudi Menuhin
Was there ever a violinist so often filmed as Menuhin? The numerous film clips and still photographs of Menuhin playing...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 1/2001
Bartók Violin Concertos Nos 1 and 2
Arabella Steinbacher | Marek Janowski | Suisse Romande Orchestra
Arabella Steinbacher and Marek Janowski offer us Bartók in 3D, the three dimensions not only spatial but emotional as well....
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2010
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