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Rachmaninov preludes

Firstly a note on the contents of this album: Brautigam includes the Preclude in E flat minor of 1887, which...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 8/1987

Mahler Lieder

These recordings were made between June 2007 (Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen) and August 2010 (R¸ckert-Lieder) and I rather wish I...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 10/2011

Bellini Beatrice di Tenda

Venice, which gave Beatrice di Tenda a thoroughly discouraging reception at its premiere, made amends in 1975 when the title-role...

Reviewed in issue 6/1988

R. Strauss Der Rosenkavalier Suite, etc

A realistic volley of drums at the start of Salome's Dance promises a spectacular in the best Telarc traditions. That...

Reviewed in issue 12/1995

Strauss, R Ariadne auf Naxos

No‚ this is not a starry cast‚ and as live recordings go it is an exceptionally noisy one: the trampling...

Reviewed in issue 11/2001

Arthur Friedheim complete recordings, etc

Simply as a piece of historical documentation, this disc has some value, but the ''delight'' promised in its accompanying blurb...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 8/1993

Beethoven Piano Sonatas Nos 28 and 29

Alfred Brendel, 65 this year, has said that this is the last recording of the Hammerklavier Sonata we shall have...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 8/1996

Rachmaninov/R. Strauss Cello Sonatas

Lynn Harrell's beautiful performance of Rachmaninov's Cello Sonata with Vladimir Ashkenazy on Decca easily retains its supremacy over the current...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 9/1987

Alaleona Mirra

Mirra, daughter of Ciniro, King of Cyprus, has a secret. Here is a love that truly dare not tell its...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 8/2005

Vaughan Williams (The) Early Chamber Works

Shortly after Vaughan Williams’s death in August 1958, his widow, Ursula, donated to the British Library his manuscript scores, among...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 1/2003

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