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Wolf Eichendorff Lieder; Goethe Lieder; Mörike Lieder

Recordings of Wolf songs are rare today, ones sung by tenors even rarer. Yet here, after the much-admired Werner Güra...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 13/2006

Mozart Symphonies

Jane Glover, Sir Neville Marriner and Jeffrey Tate here round off their Mozart symphony series. All three discs can be...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/1991

Bach: Concertos

These are 'keyboard' (which to Bach meant 'harpsichord') concertos, here played on the piano They are in fact transcriptions and...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 5/1988

Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky; Lt Kijé Suite

Previn's 1972 EMI analogue LP recording (ASD2800, 7/72—nla) of Alexander Nevsky was an outstanding achievement. So powerful is the performance...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/1988

Handel (Il) Trionfo del tempo e del disinganno

Handel’s first oratorio, Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno (or “Trionfo”, as Virgin lazily call it on the spine)...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 7/2007

Wood Chamber Works

The downside of today’s permissive atmosphere, in which composers are free to sound off in almost any idiom and with...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 7/2010

Monteverdi: Madrigali Erotici

The eye-catching title of this record, underlined by a carefully-selected moment from Titian's famous painting of Venus and the Luteplayer...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 5/1989

(The) Language of Love - Songs of the troubadours and trouvères

The performance of the trouvère repertory has changed considerably in the past 15 years or so. Much research has been...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2007

François Couperin Pièces de Clavecin

Robert Kohnen, long associated with the Kuijken brothers, and a founder member of the Brussels Alarius Ensemble, will be well...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 4/1996

Maria Callas in Concert: Hamburg 1959 & 1962

It used to be said, and is sometimes still repeated, that Callas had to be seen. Listeners to her records...

Reviewed in issue 7/1997

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