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Bruch & Saint-Saëns Violin Concertos
Considering the freshness of its invention Lalo's Symphonie espagnole is not as generously represented in the CD catalogue as might...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/1990
Bruch & Vieuxtemps: Violin Concertos, etc
Jascha Heifetz | Malcolm Sargent | New Symphony Orchestra
As Trevor Harvey pointed out in his original review in 1962, this Heifetz version of the Scottish Fantasy has some...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1988
Sarah Connolly - Songs of Love and Loss
Sarah Connolly’s beautifully sung Frauenliebe und -leben often called to mind Janet Baker’s early recording with Martin Isepp (Regis). From...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2008
'The Young Schumann' (Charles Owen)
Charles Owen, professor of piano at the Guildhall and co-artistic director of the London Piano Festival, presents the latest addition...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 02/2025
SCHUMANN Myrthen (Christian Gerhaher)
Camilla Tilling | Christian Gerhaher | Gerold Huber
For the second volume of their Schumann project, Christian Gerhaher and Gerold Huber turn to Myrthen, the wonderful wedding present...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2019
The Art of Egon Petri
Irvine Arditti’s inexhaustible appetite for the contemporary and the complex, as both soloist and founder-leader of the Arditti Quartet, is...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 8/1996
Chloë
Chloë Hanslip | London Symphony Orchestra | Paul Mann
When the publicity machine is so highly organised‚ it is all the harder to take a dispassionate view of a...
Reviewed in issue 11/2001
BRUCH Violin Concerto No 1
Guy Braunstein is a persuasive player who is soon to step down from his current position as concertmaster of the...
Reviewed in issue 06/2013
Romantique
Bologna Teatro Comunale Philharmonic Orchestra | Elina Garanca | Yves Abel
Donizetti’s La favorite is better known as La favorita; but, like The Sicilian Vespers and Don Carlos, it’s a French...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 01/2013
Christa Ludwig - A Tribute: 70 Years
Those who appreciate song interpretation were spoilt for choice in the 1960s and 1970s. There were at least five lower...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1999
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