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Schubert Lieder

This is a curiously, at times maddeningly, uneven recital. At his best Gorne is a persuasive, silver-tongued interpreter, at his...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1997

Górecki Chamber Music

Henryk Gorecki (b. 1933) has become one of the most significant exponents of what is often called 'the new simplicity'....

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 9/1991

Schumann Symphonies, etc

After the last war, Wilhelm Furtwangler was invited to conduct in Chicago, and although political pressures made his visit a...

Reviewed in issue 7/1993

Fauré: Orchestral Works

Faure was the first composer—ahead of Debussy, Schoenberg and Sibelius—whose music inspired by Maeterlinck's Pelleas et Melisande was to reach...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 1/1988

Brahms (Die) Schöne Magelone; Schubert Lieder

Nineteen-sixty-five was the year which brought Fischer-Dieskau to Aldeburgh. More surprisingly, it brought Brahms also (Brahms being the composer of...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 9/2009

Bruckner Symphony No 7

Karajan's 1971 EMI recording of Bruckner's Seventh Symphony, originally issued as a three-LP set with the Fourth Symphony, is so...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 6/1989

Spanish Royal Gala

For me the music of the Spanish zarzuela, with its seemingly endless fund of melody, is one of the joys...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 11/1992

Nielsen Chamber Works for Violin and Strings

Here is a disc to delight anyone who has enjoyed Nielsen’s incomparable autobiography, My Childhood on Fyn, and who has...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 4/2007

Ravel Mélodies

Since the 1860s the French song limelight has rather been hogged by MM Faure, Duparc, Debussy and Poulenc, with Ravel’s...

Reviewed in issue 7/2001

Serenade

Serenata of London play without a conductor, but with a leader (Barry Wilde). At least this policy ensures experience (as...

Reviewed in issue 11/1987

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