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Britten: Songs

The relative novelty in this recital is a group of five British folk-song arrangements that Benjamin Britten made for voice...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 7/1987

Wagner Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Knappertsbusch’s very early Decca LP studio recording, made in Vienna, is comparatively well known and loved, not least for Paul...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1998

Bach (The) Well Tempered Klavier, Book 1

‘The Old Testament of Piano Music’ (von Bülow) was a decisive work in our adoption of a 12-tone chromatic system....

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 13/2004

Lawrence Tibbett sings Opera Arias

Tibbett owned one of the most sheerly beautiful baritone voices of the century and he used it, at the peak...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1990

Stravinsky Symphonies

When the eye is on the ball, as it is for example in the very opening of the Symphony in...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 11/1999

Bartók/Ellington Violin Works

Both these works date from the 1940s; both, as Nigel Kennedy points out in his refreshingly direct notes, are inspired...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 12/1986

The French Connection

These performances are beautifully recorded with, in the case of Le tombeau de Couperin, CD heightening one's appreciation of Ravel's...

Reviewed in issue 2/1985

Mozart Piano Concertos Nos 5 & 6

These two early concertos first appeared as part of a five-record set which completed Alfred Brendel's Mozart piano concerto cycle....

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 12/1986

Zelenka Missa Votiva

Jan Dismas Zelenka’s sacred music written for the Catholic Hofkapelle at Dresden has been well served by several fine discs...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 9/2009

(The) Hugo Wolf Edition 1931-38

Whatever has since been achieved in Wolf interpretation as regards intelligence and sophistication – particularly in the performances of Schwarzkopf...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1998

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