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Brahms Complete Songs, Volume 1

According to some claims, Brahms might have left us as many songs as Schubert, if he had been less self-critical....

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 2/2000

Wagner Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Here is an important addition to this work's discography and a 'must' for any serious Wagnerian collector. In 1943, Bayreuth...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1994

Still, R Chamber Works and Songs

London-born Robert Still (1910-71) originally studied History and French at Oxford before switching to Music and studying under Gordon Jacob...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 7/2006

Mozart Haffner Serenade

I found the opening of this disc—a performance of the Haffner March that careers between the mincing and the ultra-pompous—so...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 3/1993

Mozart Opera & Concert Arias

Another singer, it appears, for the Pantheon. All right, let’s not be rash. Pantheon Grade 3 let’s cautiously allow her...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 5/2006

Schubert Complete Lieder, Vol.33

With the Hyperion Schubert Edition nearing the home straight, only four more volumes after this one to come (including an...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1999

Beethoven String Quartets Op 18 Nos 1-6

Much as I have enjoyed other digital recordings of Beethoven’s first quartets by (for example) the Tak·cs and Lindsay Quartets, this...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 2/2008

Monteverdi Madrigali

This live anthology is a clever way of offering a ‘sampler’ of La Venexiana’s survey of Monteverdi’s madrigals without resorting...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 2/2006

Koechlin The Jungle Book

For 40 years, from his mid-thirties onwards, Koechlin, when he wasn't day-dreaming about goddesses of the cinema screen, was obsessed...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 6/1994

Bach Mass in B Minor

There is an insatiability to Rilling's recording career reflected in this, his third account of Bach's great Mass. Rilling indeed...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 5/2000

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