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Romantic works for flute and harp

Protschka is a Czech-born tenor, who now sings with the Cologne Opera and has made his home in Germany. Record...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1987

Bartok: Works for Piano & Orchestra

A glance at timings might suggest that Philips have not packaged these performances to best advantage. The Scherzo and the...

Reviewed in issue 1/1988

Schubert (Die) Schöne Müllerin

Speaking first of voices, I would think that Kaufmann’s is the best, certainly the richest, among tenors to be heard...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 6/2010

Villa-Lobos Bachianas Brasileiras; Gtr Conc; Amazonas

From the total absence of even a word of presentation on the works included here, it would seem that this...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 8/1999

Mendelssohn; Shostakovich Violin Concertos

Years ago the merest mention of Shostakovich’s First Violin Concerto brought just two key stylistic templates to mind: David Oistrakh...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 4/2003

Handel Coronation Anthems; Foundling Hospital Anthem

Handel had already become a British subject by the time of George II's coronation on October 11th, 1727 but there...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 2/1995

Beethoven Piano Concerto No 4

This unusual and refreshing coupling presents François-Frédéric Guy as both soloist and chamber musician. First appearing on disc in brilliantly...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/2009

Schubert Winterreise

Tenor or baritone? A matter of taste; but I’ve always felt that, whereas the puppyish enthusiasm of Die schöne Müllerin...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 12/2011

Organ Works

Vierne's ''Carillon de Westminster'' dongs out the chimes of the famous clock tower as though through a pre-war London fog,...

Reviewed in issue 10/1984

Sondheim Merrily We Roll Along 1992 Cast Recording

''Can you draw sweet water from a foul well?'' That was a question that the New York critic Brooks Atkinson...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 4/1995

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