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Hindemith (Das) Marienleben

Das Marienleben is a masterpiece of the song-cycle genre, one of few 20th-century examples to rank with the greatest from...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 2/2010

Haydn String Quartets

It is not to be expected that CDs deriving from recordings of around 1970 will sound so vivid as more...

Reviewed in issue 6/1987

Ge Gan-Ru Fall of Baghdad

Born in Shanghai in 1954 but a New Yorker since 1983, wherever Ge Gan-Ru goes the tag “China’s first avant-garde...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 7/2010

David Oistrakh plays Violin Sonatas

David Oistrakh’s playing is, at its best, a calming force in an agitated world – intelligent, considered (just occasionally overcalculated),...

Reviewed in issue 2/1998

Messiaen Songs of Love and Death

As I keep on saying, the title-page of Harawi calls for a grand soprano dramatique, and Lucy Shelton, whose voice...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 10/1999

Albinoni (Il) Nascimento dell'Aurora

Albinoni was a prolific composer of opera for his native city of Venice. However, Il nascimento dell’Aurora is not an...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 5/2008

Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos 1 and 2

This period-instrument orchestra and their conductor make an immediately pleasing impression at the start of these concertos, and their freshness...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 2/1997

Nordic Light

The title “Nordic Light” aptly describes this collection, for there is a luminosity that suffuses these songs – and the...

Reviewed in issue 2/1997

Marais Suite d'un goût étranger

French composers of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries delighted in adorning their pieces with foreign, in particular, Italian, elements,...

Reviewed in issue 10/1998

R Strauss Der Rosenkavalier

That unpredictable spark of brilliance, Kleiber, rarely records, but he has made two video Rosenkavalier s, both excellent. If this...

Reviewed in issue 6/2001

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