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Schoenberg Gurrelieder

I have a little list of Gurrelieder recordings burdened by an uningratiating effort at the central role of King Waldemar...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 3/2010

Famous Overtures

This CD, like much classical 'pop', falls between two stools for it seems far too undemanding to concentrate the attention...

Reviewed in issue 12/1984

Barber Songs

Samuel Barber came from a singing background (his aunt was the famous contralto Louise Homer, her husband a popular song...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 9/1988

Glass Symphony No 6 'Plutonian Ode'

Glass had been planning a piano piece to accompany Alan Ginsberg’s readings of his poem Plutonian Ode but on Ginsberg’s...

Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 4/2006

The Art of Piano

Here, in all their glory and individuality, are Rachmaninov, Moiseiwitsch, Edwin and Annie Fischer, Cziffra, Gilels et al, to remind...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 4/2000

Kallstenius Symphony No 2

Kallstenius spoke of his Second Symphony (1935) as his best: it is certainly worthy but overlong. The first movement, like...

Reviewed in issue 6/1999

The Unknown Janácek

This is a record that can scarcely be said to have general appeal, but for all admirers of Janacek it...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 3/1995

Joan Sutherland: The Art of the Prima Donna

Thirty years on, and one might well fear that the critical excesses of (relative) youth will have to be expiated...

Reviewed in issue 1/1990

Schubert (Die) Winterreise

This is an intermittently touching journey across Schubert’s snowbound landscape, but not one that left me moved, let alone chilled...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 7/2011

Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies

Although Campanella may well be a more accomplished technician than Roberto Szidon, whose set of complete Hungarian Rhapsodies is available...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 8/1993

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