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Brahms; Mahler; Schubert; Schumann Songs (Meinders Piano Transcriptions)

This warm and affectionate recital takes up the cudgels on behalf of the art of transcription. Songs by Schubert, Schumann,...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/2009

Mozart Chamber Works

The best-known work here, which comes first, is the Kegelstatt Trio. James Levine and his two colleagues of the Vienna-Berlin...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 3/1993

Debussy: Piano works

This confirms the favourable impression Rouvier made with his Denon CD of Debussy's Preludes, Book 2 (C37-7043, 5/84), though it...

Reviewed in issue 7/1985

Weber (Der) Freischütz

The first releases from the extensive TV archive of productions made during Rolf Liebermann’s Intendantship in Hamburg in the 1960s...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 5/2007

Onslow; Spohr Nonets

Spohr and Onslow were exact contemporaries, both born in 1784, but their nonets lie a generation apart, in date and...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 3/2011

Kirchschlager & Bonney - First Encounter

Timed to coincide with a series of public performances, this duet-recital should prove attractive on various counts. The voices are...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 1/2005

Paganini Violin Caprices

Whilst in no way competing with the artistry of Mintz, Perlman, Kavacos and Midori—all full-price versions—Ilya Kaler approaches the Paganini...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 10/1993

Liszt Piano Sonata; Mephisto Waltz No 1

One gets to hear an awful lot of new recordings of the Liszt Sonata over the course of a year....

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 5/2010

Music for Trumpet and Orchestra

This is the first of two releases of mainly seventeenth-century music which Tafelmusik recorded in Toronto early last year. The...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 4/1995

Britten Peter Grimes

My opinion of this 1994 ENO staging has not changed since I reviewed it on VHS. Hildegard Bechtler’s scenery for...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/2003

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