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Mendelssohn & Spohr: Chamber Works

Teldec's recording does not serve the players to very best advantage in the Octet, for the balance is a little...

Reviewed in issue 12/1988

Landscape & Time

As the title suggests, the works here share a double theme. All eight evoke landscapes of varying types, from the...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 3/2007

Reger and Romanticism

How I would love to have been in London‚ Birmingham‚ Sheffield or Newcastle during December 1935 when Wilhelm Furtwängler was...

Reviewed in issue 9/2002

D Scarlatti Harpsichord Sonatas, Vol 1

The convenience of starting with Kirkpatrick 1 and running through in chronological order is a plus factor in a series...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 8/2005

Earl Wild plays Rachmaninov Song Transcriptions

There aren't really many great pianists around who could vie with Earl Wild as an improviser and transcriber; these reworkings...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 11/1987

Brahms Lieder

The recent untimely death of that stalwart artist, Jan DeGaetani, at the early age of 56 shocked her many admirers...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1990

Hartmann Concerto funèbre for Violin and Orchestra; Henze (I) Sentimenti

The Concerto funèbre (1939, rev 1959) is gradually emerging as a modern classic, at least on disc, with eight versions...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 9/2006

Rossini Ermione

None of the rediscoveries made during the late-20th-century Rossini renaissance created a greater stir than Ermione, Rossini’s thrilling two-act azione...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/2009

R. Strauss Lieder & Arias

It is good to have these outstanding performances on CD, especially as they allow us to hear Schwarzkopf in two...

Reviewed in issue 4/1988

Haydn Symphonies

These symphonies are the first music Haydn wrote on his appointment, in 1761, as vice-Kapellmeister to the Esterhazy family. It...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 1/1988

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