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Schubert Symphony No 9; Schumann Symphony No 4

Reissues like this and the 1958 Decca Don Giovanni suggest that it may be time for a Krips reappraisal (do...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 10/1990

Rihm St Luke Passion

Of all the composers born in Germany since Hans Werner Henze, none has shown greater skill in adapting traditional vocal...

Reviewed in issue 8/2001

Schubert Winterreise

I had great expectations of this issue, and on the whole they have been amply fulfilled. As one might expect...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1986

The Young Kiri Early Recordings: 1964-70

Remembering those Swiss recordings by the young Giuseppe di Stefano, remembering the recorded early broadcasts of a little-known soprano called...

Reviewed in issue 2/1991

Danses nobles et sentimentales

I have the feeling that we do not really live in the age of the encore piece—today's world has less...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 3/1990

Büttner Symphonic Works

Paul Büttner (1870-1943) is a largely forgotten figure now, earning only token entries even from German music dictionaries. In the...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 5/2003

Dvorák The King and the Charcoal Burner

Dvorak’s second opera, his first in Czech, tells the tale of King Matyas taking refuge incognito in the hut of...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 9/1997

Bach Sonatas and Partitas

The totally innocent ear, deprived of any comparison, could be forgiven for judging these to be definitive performances of Bach's...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 2/1994

Scriabin Piano Works, Vol.1

Having admired Fergus-Thompson's previous excursion into Scriabin's music on the Kingdom label (the Third Sonata, Two poems, Op. 32 and...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 4/1992

20th Century String Music

Richard Studt directs a lusty, energetic programme, with the Bartok in particular emerging as rather more earthy than it does...

Reviewed in issue 10/1994

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