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Neil Shicoff sings Live

Neil Shicoff is a tenor many readers will have come to value on both stage and records. Up to now,...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 8/2003

Adriaenssen Love Songs & Dances

The pieces in this collection appeared in the Pratum musicum, a publication issued in 1584 by the Dutch lutenist and...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 8/1996

Brahms Orchestral Works

When I reviewed the original issue of this disc I was impressed by a particular beauty in the nature of...

Reviewed in issue 1/1994

Szymanowski Complete Songs for Voice and Piano

What a journey is on offer here. This set proposes a kind of luxury musical package-tour for the jet-set age...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 11/2004

Prokofiev Piano sonatas Nos 4 and 6; romeo and Juliet

Lugansky is a forthright, no-nonsense player, who may appeal to those who like their Prokofiev straight and minimally interpreted. It...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 4/2004

Smetana (The) Bartered Bride, '(Die) verkaufte Braut'

Smetana had to learn Czech and needed a crib in German to help him set (rather eccentrically) the libretto of...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 6/2010

Mahler Das Lied von der Erde

This is rare treasure indeed. After Walter and Klemperer, Horenstein was the conductor most associated with Mahler's music in the...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/2000

Sibelius Orchestral works

The dark opening chord of the Scenes historiques already proclaims its author. The Lydian modality and muttering string textures of...

Reviewed in issue 1/1987

Brahms Complete Works for Violin & Piano

This is a curate’s egg of a disc. Least successful, in the first two movements at least, is the performance...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 9/2011

Schoenberg Chamber Works

Reviewing a new recording by the Schoenberg Ensemble of the same works plus the late violin Phantasy on Philips, I...

Reviewed in issue 9/1988

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