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Strauss, R Opera Scenes & Lieder

To judge from the cover, this CD is designed to show off the skills of Natalie Dessay. In the event...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/2005

Ravel Chansons Madecasses

Pahud's range of tone colour is amazing - no one listening to the Prokofiev Sonata is likely to feel short-changed...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 5/2000

Bach Cantatas, Vol 11

The one disadvantage, albeit minor, of the gradual release of the Millennial Bach Cantata Pilgrimage has been the seemingly random...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/2010

Ravel (L')enfant et les sortilèges; Ma mère l'oye

Just the first few notes of the introduction to Ravel’s opera always cast their spell. When Colette, who had written...

Reviewed by po'connor in issue: 6/2009

Gerhard Pedrell Symphony; Harpsichord Concerto

We have had to wait over 40 years for a first recording of Gerhard’s Harpsichord Concerto, without much question one...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 12/1998

Boëllmann Chamber Works

Leon Boellmann is known chiefly as an organ composer, but he also wrote piano and orchestral works and contributed to...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1993

Grieg Peer Gynt Suites 1 & 2; In Autumn; Symphonic Dances

As soon as the strings respond to the flute near the beginning of Peer Gynt’s ‘Morning’ – longingly leaning on...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 1/2001

Schoenberg Von Heute auf Morgen

Von Heute auf Morgen (“From Today to Tomorrow”) is one of the least performed (and recorded) of Schoenberg’s major compositions....

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 5/1998

Fischer Vocal Works

Bohemian­born Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer (1656­1746) is remembered today mainly for his keyboard works‚ which include a set of 20...

Reviewed in issue 13/2002

Bach Inventions & Sinfonias

Glancing through the Gramophone Classical Catalogue I was surprised to see that until the arrival of this record there had...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 8/1985

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