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Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Wilhelm Kempff

We owe it to Alfred Brendel that this first of three Kempff collections planned for the new Philips Great Pianists...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/1998

Haydn Symphonies, Vol. 6

With Volume 6 of their complete cycle the Hanover Band alight on the trio of works Haydn composed in 1782...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 5/1992

Stravinsky Rite of Spring

Stravinsky greeted Leonard Bernstein's earlier record of The Rite of Spring with an amazed ''Wow!'' That was made almost a...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 10/1983

Milhaud (Complete) Piano Concertos

This collection of Milhaud’s works for piano and orchestra follows Alun Francis’s set of the symphonies. Of obvious value for...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/2007

Beethoven String Trios

Here is the latest instalment of Supraphon’s issue of classic concerts given in Prague in the 1950s and ’60s. This...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 8/2011

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - Recordings from the Archives

Dig deep, dig wide, there will always be something left for the archaeologists and archivists of recording to come up...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 6/2010

Palestrina Music for Good Friday

Three selected readings from the Lamentations of Jeremiah are sung during the First Nocturn at Tenebrae on each of the...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 5/2000

Beethoven Piano Concertos in D Op.61 & No.4

“I truly believe that what the composer wanted was chamber music rather than a battle between orchestra and soloist.” So...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 2/2010

Busoni Doktor Faust

Named one of the three “most special” German operas of the 20th century by Fischer-Dieskau, alongside Mathis der Maler and...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 3/2008

Tchaikovsky Songs, Volume 1

This first volume in Leiferkus’s collection of Tchaikovsky’s songs with Semion Skigin contains a good number of favourites. He has...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 8/1996

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