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Schumann: Piano Works

Since 1980 Andreas Bach has studied with that fine Hanover teacher, Karl-Heinz Kammerling; the booklet also tells us that though...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 11/1990

Concert in Villa Wahnfried

These days the Wagner family home in Bayreuth functions mainly as a museum. During the Festival it also lays on...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 2/1995

Donizetti L'Elisir d'amore

This is something very special; indeed, a delight from start to finish making one fall in love again with this...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1993

Gershwin Of Thee I Sing

This Gershwin musical comedy is described in the accompanying booklet as one of those shows in which the score had...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 1/1995

Chant - Music of Paradise

Every so often, plainchant enjoys a surge of popularity. About 20 years ago the Benedictine monks of Silos enjoyed phenomenal...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 8/2008

Beethoven Symphony 6

Amiable and easygoing and totally unmannered in style, this happy performance has the blessing of the finest, most glowing recorded...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/1983

Glazunov: Orchestral works

Glazunov's precocious First Symphony was enthusiastically received at its St Petersburg premiere and this fervour turned to astonishment when a...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 9/1987

Osvaldo Golijov The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind

“There you go! Another Yiddish chord!” Thus spoke Osvaldo Golijov’s father from behind the sports pages of a newspaper. He...

Reviewed in issue 6/1997

Abel 6 Symphonies, Op 10

Carl Friedrich Abel was born in Cothen, son of a member of Bach's group there, the year Bach left; possibly,...

Reviewed in issue 7/1995

Brahms/Yun Clarinet Quintets

Though two existing clarinet quintets are masterpieces (I am thinking of Mozart's along with the Brahms that is played here),...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 11/1991

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