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Brahms Lieder

As AB said in his review of the original issue, Brahms suits Margaret Price particularly well. The broad sweep of...

Reviewed in issue 2/1987

Nietzsche Lieder & Piano Works

Booklet-essays need to be positive, so when Roger Hollinrake declares that “the accomplishment of Nietzsche’s surviving songs is not in...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 3/1996

Bach Christmas Oratorio

Close on the coat-tails of Nikolaus Harnoncourt’s cultivated new reading comes a special “presentation” release from Jan Willem de Vriend....

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 1/2008

Tippett Orchestral Works

The riot of proliferating counterpoint that is Tippett's Symphony No. 1 presents enough problems of orchestral balance to give recording...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 4/1995

Arriaga String Quartets

Arriaga wrote his three string quartets in Paris, when he was 17; he died there before he was 20. They...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 1/2004

Schubert Orchestral Works

What has happened to Decca's San Francisco sound? To sample, say, their recent Hindemith Nobilissima Visione (4193) and Mendelssohn Italian...

Reviewed by Jonathan Swain in issue: 10/1993

Bach Favourite Arias

Battle and Perlman together in Bach sounds like a recipe for no uncertain sweetness and much stained-glass light. Prospective buyers...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 3/1992

Schumann Piano Works

Diminutive in stature and unassuming in manner, Annie Fischer was among the past century’s most heroic pianists. Few artists have...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/2004

Brahms: Chamber Works

An enthusiast told me recently that Yuri Bashmet is one of the supreme violists to emerge in recent years, and...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 5/1988

Wagner Das Rheingold

I shall be forgiven if I say that I feel a little like the man at a wine-tasting who, when...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1985

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