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Pfitzner: Lieder

Those of us old enough to have attended Fischer-Dieskau's first recitals in London at the beginning of the 1950s will...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1990

Elgar/Mendelssohn Violin Concertos

The Mendelssohn—a lovely performance which was recorded in May 1958—briefly resurfaced on a budget-priced Pickwick disc in 1991. Now deleted,...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/1994

Schumann Piano Concerto; Chopin Piano Concerto 2

Both performances pleased me greatly with their musical grace, and especially the Chopin. Schiff shows that although Chopin was a...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 6/1985

Bellini Norma

There are various ways of saying “No”. One is to intimate, with a touch of reluctance, that after due consideration...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 4/2008

J. C. F. Bach: Secular Cantatas

Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach was the eldest surviving son of J. S. Bach's second marriage, to Anna Magdalena. He was...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 10/1990

Merikanto Songs

Merikanto’s output of 150-or-so songs was the first to consist of texts mainly in Finnish, and a number of them...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 6/2008

Poulenc La Voix humaine

How must Georges Pretre have felt conducting this performance of Poulenc's last stage work, he who had conducted its premiere...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 9/1991

Debussy & Ravel String Quartets

The first thing I noticed about the Emerson Quartet's new coupling of the Debussy and Ravel String Quartets is that...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 4/1990

Mozart: Don Giovanni

This historic performance presents Don Giovanni very much as Grand Romantic Opera. Furtwangler's tempos are in most cases, though far...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1986

The Royal Eurostar and other Brass Music

Paul Patterson had great problems in writing the music for the Royal Eurostar celebration, as the arrangements for the State...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/1996

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