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Richter plays Schumann

''Selected for release on CD for their outstanding artistic and historical importance'' is DG's description of these analogue recordings of...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 11/1992

Wagner Götterdämmerung

In July 1999 Arte Nova recorded the Tirol Festival production of Wagner’s Siegfried (8/00)‚ and this Götterdämmerung derives from two...

Reviewed in issue 1/2002

Debussy Préludes

More than 30 years have passed since Gieseking's death. For a while thereafter his recordings remained as a monument to...

Reviewed in issue 4/1988

Saint-Saëns Carnival des animaux, etc

After some initial resistance, it is difficult not to fall eventually under the spell of Johnny Morris’s very personal (and...

Reviewed in issue 2/1999

Sacred Concerti

In this current period of collective belt-tightening it’s good to be reminded of how art can flourish in times of...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 9/2009

Stravinsky Le Chant du Rossidnol. Mahler Symphony No 6. Webern Passacaglia. Variations.

Not all composers have proved to be distinguished interpreters – even of their own works – but Pierre Boulez...

Reviewed by K Smith in issue: 13/2011

Erkel Bánk bán

Bánk bán has had two previous recordings, from Qualiton in 1962 and from Hungaroton in 1968, the second a vigorous...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 2/2004

Hartmann, KA Sinfonia tragica

Although submitted for performance in 1946, Hartmann’s Sinfonia tragica (1940, rev 1943) became a victim of his wholesale post-war reconstruction...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 5/2007

Kremerland

There is a fashion these days for this brand of whimsical pastiche, to give it a kind name (pointless parasitism...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 3/2005

Rossini (La) Cenerentola

This live recording of what some would argue is Rossini’s finest – certainly his most affecting – comedy was made...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 4/2003

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