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Ránki plays Liszt

If it's a CD coupling of both the B minor and Dante Sonatas that you're after, then Dezso Ranki's sole...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 9/1986

(A) Portrait of Norman Walker

Norman Walker was one of our leading basses for some 17 years from 1937 when he sang as the Commendatore...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1996

Ries Piano Concertos, Opp 123 & 151

Remembered as the pupil, amanuensis, friend and biographer of Beethoven, Ferdinand Ries (1784-1838) as a composer has suffered the familiar...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 1/2006

Mozart Le Nozze di Figaro

The catalogue of Figaro recordings is a long one, and the cast lists are full of famous names. In this...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 8/1994

Music from the New York Stage, Vol. 2: 1908 1913

These 12 CDs are a monument to the enterprise of collector/producer Jack Raymond, who has gathered what is claimed to...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 5/1994

Poulenc Mélodies

To the remarkable plenitude of good recordings of Poulenc's songs already in the catalogue must now be added the present...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 3/1987

Weber Piano Works

It is disappointing to find a French pianist playing these works with so little of the French wit, brilliance and...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 4/1994

R. Strauss Elektra

When I reviewed the most recent version of Elektra in July last year I singled out for special praise the...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1997

Dufay O gemma lux

Dufay’s isorhythmic motets are among his most intriguing and outgoing works. They bristle with musical complexities and astonishing invention; they...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 11/2000

Killmayer Hölderlin Lieder

The German composer Wilhelm Killmayer (b. 1927) set some 43 of Holderlin's poems between 1982 and 1991. All come from...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 9/1992

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