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Lotte Lehmann sings Lieder

This disc comprises six of Lehmann's Odeons, six Victors (1939; all Wolf) and 14 Columbias (1941), divided between Richard Strauss...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1995

Walton: Façade

These four performances offer very different views of Walton's masterpiece. You need to go no further than ''Mariner Man'' to...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1991

Brahms Piano Quintet, Op. 34

As I remarked when reviewing the Bartok/Ranki version (Hungaroton), your choice in this work is likely to depend on your...

Reviewed in issue 6/1987

Messiaen Piano Works

Yvonne Loriod's 1973 recording of the Vingt regards was for some while available only as part of a vast 17-disc...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 12/1994

Renaissance Music from the Courts of Mantua and Ferrara

Until comparatively recently the repertory of early sixteenth-century Italian courtly songs known collectively as frottole appears to have interested musicologists...

Reviewed in issue 2/1985

Mahler Symphony No 7

This is wonderful, and a great surprise. Bitter experience has taught me to give Knappertsbusch's Bruckner a wide berth, not...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/1995

Handel Water Music

This is a strange record. Handel's publisher, John Walsh, issued during the 1740s a harpsichord arrangement of the Water Music;...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 8/1987

Mozart Piano Sonatas

It is good to hear Alfred Brendel playing Mozart, a composer he approaches with a high seriousness. He begins this...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 8/1992

Rachmaninov Piano Works

The four Moments musicaux are in sequence but otherwise Preludes and Etudes-tableaux, plus the youthful Elegie, are mixed together to...

Reviewed in issue 7/1985

Bach: Keyboard Works

Everything about this CD is presented with the utmost clarity. Robert Aldwinkle begins the Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D...

Reviewed in issue 6/1986

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