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Schubert Lieder

Edith Wiens's fresh tone and well-nigh faultless technique makes everything here sound so easy that one might be lulled into...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1993

Heartbreak

The title may make you cringe, but this is very classy violin playing. Lovely tone, beautiful legato phrasing and, given...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 13/1999

The Original Chopin, Volume Two

I first heard Angela Lear at the 1975 Chopin Competition in Warsaw and since that nerve-racking time she has developed...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 8/1996

Langlais Works for Organ

Langlais's First Symphony is an angry work, born out of the frustrations and horrors of the Nazi occupation of Paris....

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 1/1995

Debussy; Mozart Songs

Juliane Banse and András Schiff have been giving recitals together for several years, but this is their first recording. To...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 6/2003

(The) Choral Works of Carey Blyton

There are 56 tracks on this 64-minute disc. Take out The Mistletoe Bough (3’22”) and the average is just about...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/2005

Bax Clarinet Sonatas; Piano Trio

Bax’s engaging Clarinet Sonata of 1934 has been lucky on disc, with distinguished versions from Janet Hilton, Emma Johnson and...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 8/2006

Beethoven Cello Sonatas

This was one of the great recordings of the 1960s, and it still sounds magnificent. Richter rightly sees the piano...

Reviewed in issue 1/1985

Sullivan (The) Pirates of Penzance; Trial by Jury.

Revisiting these 1949 recordings I find the ‘precious’ pronunciation of the immediate post­Second World War D’Oyly Carte company one of...

Reviewed in issue 6/2002

Gabrieli Missa Apostolorum

This is a most unusual recording with its presentation of an organ mass by Andrea Gabrieli (1532/3­85). Gabrieli was one...

Reviewed in issue 3/2002

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