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RAVEL Complete Works for Solo Piano
Bertrand Chamayou from Toulouse has been called a prince of pianists, a hyperbolic claim, some might argue, for a musician...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2016
Jonas Kaufmann: Selige Stunde - Romantic Songs
Helmut Deutsch | Jonas Kaufmann
Jonas Kaufmann is nothing if not versatile. Just a few months ago I was reviewing his new recording of Otello...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 10/2020
FRANCK Cello Sonata STROHL Titus et Bérénice (Sandra Lied Haga)
Katya Apekisheva | Sandra Lied Haga
Norwegian cellist Sandra Lied Haga opts for a French programme for her recital with Katya Apekisheva, juxtaposing the familiar Franck/Delsart...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2023
SIBELIUS Violin Concerto SZYMANOWSKI Violin Concerto No 2 (Lea Birringer)
Benjamin Shwartz | Lea Birringer | Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie
There are so many available versions of Sibelius’s evergreen Violin Concerto (1903 05) that evaluating any newcomer against past competition...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2025
The Art of Hans Hotter
It has always seemed extraordinary that a singer who was so renowned as an overwhelmingly powerful Wotan was able to...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1988
Toscanini conducts Schubert, Schumann & Brahms
Arturo Toscanini | NBC Symphony Orchestra
None of these works was recorded commercially by Toscanini, and all were rare items in his concert repertoire. His last...
Reviewed in issue 6/1990
Romantic Organ Music, Vol.2
The demand of collectors for organ music and for the infinitely varied sounds of this protean instrument has had a...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 9/1988
Liszt/Schumann/Brahms Piano Works
Artur Pizarro | Martha Argerich
Artur Pizarro is the young Portuguese virtuoso who garnered first prizes at Leeds, Lisbon and Florida and, predictably, his Liszt...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/1993
Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet suite (arr Viola)
Helen Callus, a viola-player with exceptionally warm tone and perfect intonation, here offers a miscellany of transcriptions. She celebrates a...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 12/2007
Brahms/Schubert/Schumann - Lieder
Friedrich Haider | Vesselina Kasarova
In the past two or three years Vesselina Kasarova has progressed from being a well-schooled young singer to a mature...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 5/2000
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