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Schubert Complete Lieder, Vol.13

These two new issues in the Hyperion Schubert Edition are linked by the fact that each singer makes guest appearances...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1992

Walton Cello Concerto; Violin Concerto

This welcome new issue in Naxos’s excellent Walton series neatly follows up their recent coupling, closely parallel, of Britten’s Violin...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/1999

Respighi La bella dormente nel bosco

Respighi’s La bella dormente nel bosco (“Sleeping Beauty”), a “musical fairy-tale in three acts”, is one of his most unassumingly...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 7/1996

Handel Alcina

Though twice recorded before (a 1959 Melodrama under Leitner—never available in the UK—and a 1962 Decca under bonynge on GOS509,...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 11/1986

Elgar The Light of Life

Hickox's superior Elgarian credentials are immediately established in the glorious orchestral ''Meditation'', where his conducting demonstrates a noble flexibility, sensitivity...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 5/1994

Schoenberg String Quartets

This disc is very good news for collectors who are reluctant to invest in boxed sets of Schoenberg's complete chamber...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/1999

Liszt Works for Piano and Orchestra

What if, for one reason or another, Liszt had never completed his Second Piano Concerto and it was suddenly rediscovered?...

Reviewed in issue 10/1991

Great European Organs, No.12

Priory's ''Great European Organs'' series here turns its attention to one of the most famous instruments of all. Mozart and...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 10/1989

Egk Die Verlobung in San Domingo

Heinrich von Kleist's short novel Betrothal in St Domingo, published in 1811, offers a heady brew of sudden passion, imagined...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 9/1994

Beethoven Symphonies

Is there anything Sir Charles Mackerras can't turn his hand to? It isn't just the way success follows success, it's...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 12/1993

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