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Lehar Friederike

The warmest of welcomes to Lehár’s Friederike, a live performance recorded in Munich’s Prinzregententheater. The casting of the four young...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 1/2010

Hélène Grimaud - Reflection

Passing from ’Credo’, the title of her first DG recital, to ‘Reflection’, Hélène Grimaud presents us with a second lovingly...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/2006

Rachmaninov Piano Works

''Recorded in April, 1985'' so the label informs us of this recital. But better late than never. Even today the...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 10/1988

Bach Cantatas, Vol 16

After the disruption of changing record companies midway through a complete cantata series, Ton Koopman and his Amsterdam forces have...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 6/2005

Schubert Lieder - Poets of Sensibility, Vol 3

The pre-Romantic poets of Empfindsamkeit (‘sensibility’), represented here by Hölty, Claudius and Stolberg, inspired a handful of famous Schubert settings...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 3/2006

Godowsky UK Columbia Recordings, 1928-30

For 30 years Leopold Godowsky (1870-1938) was one of the most famous pianists of his day, greatly admired by his...

Reviewed in issue 4/1989

Strauss, J News Year's Concert

Even if, like me, you were disappointed by Nikolaus Harnoncourt’s recording of Die Fledermaus ( Teldec, 5/88) – purposeful rather...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/2001

Carter; Zimmermann, U Cello Concertos

These 21st-century cello concertos come from opposite ends of the stylistic spectrum – Elliott Carter (b1908) characteristically edgy and expressionist,...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 1/2011

Sibelius Symphonies Nos 3 & 5

The new Decca coupling of the Third and Sixth Symphonies completes Herbert Blomstedt’s Sibelius cycle with the fine San Francisco...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 11/1996

Bruckner Symphony No.3

As you will gather from the above digest of the 20 or so available recordings, it is a more than...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 2/2001

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