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Review of Schubert Lieder

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

Review of Górecki Chamber Music

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

Review of Schumann Symphonies, etc

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

Review of Fauré: Orchestral Works

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

Review of Brahms (Die) Schöne Magelone; Schubert Lieder

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

Review of Bruckner Symphony No 7

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

Review of Spanish Royal Gala

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

Review of Nielsen Chamber Works for Violin and Strings

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

Review of Ravel Mélodies

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

Review of Serenade

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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