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Hamelin plays Grainger

Just when you think that you have heard all of Marc-Andre Hamelin’s very considerable interpretative and pianistic faculties, along he...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 1/1997

Beethoven Violin Concerto; Mozart Violin Concerto No 4

The artistic principles raised by this provocative release are as interesting as Kennedy’s occasionally madcap performances. For example, how musically...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 7/2008

Pfitzner (Das) Christ-Elflein

Pfitzner first wrote incidental music to a play of this name by a friend. Then in 1917 he turned it...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/2006

Brahms/Schubert Piano Works

Both sonatas in this mid-price reissue came from composers still only 20. I particularly enjoyed Lupu’s imaginative vitality in Schubert’s...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 9/1996

Wagner (Der) Ring des Nibelungen

Archipel is to be lauded for unearthing what proves to be a thrilling traversal of the much-recorded Ring. In the...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/2003

Mahler Das klagende Lied

These two records are not strictly comparable. The EMI/Rattle, which includes the ''Waldmarchen'' movement, is the more complete and is...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/1985

Mahler Symphony No. 6

Erich Leinsdorf’s one and only studio recording of Mahler’s Sixth Symphony was made for RCA in Boston in 1965 (10/66...

Reviewed in issue 3/2002

Offenbach Arias and Scenes

Anne Sofie von Otter immediately stamps her brilliance on this fascinating collection as Offenbach’s voluptuous Grand-Duchess. Her commanding projection and...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 3/2003

Massenet Werther

It is a strange reflection of the problems that beset opera and recording companies that the Lyon Opera in the...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 13/1997

Rostropovich in Recital

A fellow German-immigrant friend of Handel’s, Pepusch is perhaps best-known for his contribution to the Beggar’s Opera. Bergen Baroque explores...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 13/1999

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