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Régine Crespin sings Verdi and Wagner Arias

Crespin's distinction is best savoured in the Sleepwalking scene. Lady Macbeth's haunted mind becomes the very substance of the voice,...

Reviewed in issue 1/1989

Beethoven String Quartets Op 59 Nos 2 & 3

This isn’t just another Rasumovsky recording: the Brodskys manage to sound thoroughly individual without ever seeming eccentric or one-sided. They...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 7/2006

Bartók Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta

It is fascinating to compare this 2008 recording of Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta with the one that Kocsis...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 13/2010

Van Cliburn plays Prokofiev & Schumann Piano Concertos

It is now 37 years since Van Cliburn – described in 1958 by Time magazine in honest-to-goodness vulgarity as “Liberace...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 8/1996

Aksel Schiøtz, Vol. 1

Schiotz’s singing was always the very epitome of silvery elegance. A Danish tenor in the mould of Britain’s Heddle Nash...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1997

Mahler Symphony No 10 (ed Cooke)

It has become harder for interpreters to make their mark in what has become standard fare, yet both these conductors...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 1/2006

Things that gain - Gerald Barry Solo and Chamber Works, Vol 1

This is a very mixed bag – understandably so in that the time-span by composition date is some 20 years....

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 4/1999

Endless Pleasure - Handel & Mozart Arias

Ruth Ann Swenson made something of a sensation with her brilliantly sung and vivaciously acted Semele at the last Covent...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 10/1999

Beethoven; Mendelssohn Violin Concertos

Nikolaj Znaider’s high-calibre artistry is tellingly exemplified by the second subject of Mendelssohn’s first movement (3’09” into track 1) where...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2005

Mahler 12 Songs from Das Knaben Wunderhorn

How, I wonder, would Gustav Mahler have reacted to the implied attention-deficit at the quiet start of one of his...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2011

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