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Sumi Jo - The Christmas Album

When I see such­and­such a singer’s Christmas Album‚ I usually run a mile (figuratively speaking) from the sentimental‚ religioso items...

Reviewed in issue 12/2001

Fauré Mélodies

All the favourites are here, well ordered and beautifully performed. The programme takes us up to La bonne chanson, completed...

Reviewed in issue 2/1990

Schumann: Piano Works

The CD version emphasizes the limpid clarity of both the playing and recording, and the rather close balance. The DG...

Reviewed in issue 4/1985

Mozart Church Sonatas

Somewhat misleadingly this disc is described as Vol. 1 of ''The Complete Organ Works''. Certainly the organ plays an integral...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 3/1991

Beethoven Edition, Vol. 5 - Piano Sonatas

In 1970, when DG issued their bicentenary Beethoven Edition, Wilhelm Kempff’s cycle of the piano sonatas, completed only five years...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 13/1997

Malipiero Orchestral Works

Every new or reissued Malipiero recording adds something to the portrait of what we are gradually beginning to recognise as...

Reviewed in issue 7/2001

Mahler Symphony No 5

The issue of subjectivity in this music is a thorny one. The debate rolls on: can one, should one, be...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 4/1997

Schubert Rosamunde

Wilhelmina von Chezy's play Rosamunde is well known to be a hopeless farrago of nonsense. No trace of it remains...

Reviewed in issue 9/1985

Haydn Piano Trios

This latest instalment in the series of Decca recordings deriving from Andras Schiff’s exhilarating annual chamber music festival at Mondsee,...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 1/1996

Elgar Violin Concerto

''Dazzling'' was EG's epithet for this performance when it first appeared on LP, and I can only echo him: fast...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 9/1984

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