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Review of Après un rêve

Après un rêve

Sandrine Piau | Susan Manoff

Naïve

Sandrine Piau brings her familiar limpid tone, refined phrasing and easy, silvery top notes to this eclectic programme, built around...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2011

Review of Mind Music

Mind Music

Elizabeth Jordan | Lynsey Marsh | Northern Chamber Orchestra | Stephen Barlow

Divine Art

As the title indicates, on this disc the composers, performers and the music itself are linked by depression, Parkinson’s disease...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2017

Review of (The) Art of Rosalyn Tureck

(The) Art of Rosalyn Tureck

Rosalyn Tureck

Video Artists International

After the recent death of this great and courageous pianist every scrap of material wil be gathered as proof of...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2003

Review of Sophie Pacini: In Between

Sophie Pacini: In Between

Sophie Pacini

Warner Classics

An attractive theme for a programme, this, with Clara Schumann rubbing shoulders with her husband, and Fanny Mendelssohn allowed to...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2018

Review of Romantic Organ Works

Romantic Organ Works

Peter Hurford

Argo

The sleeve-note naively says ''Romantic French and German organ music is a new departure for Peter Hurford, who has gained...

Reviewed in issue 5/1983

Review of German Overtures

German Overtures

Christian Thielemann | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Deutsche Grammophon

Mixed collections of overtures have become quite a rarity on new CDs and there is much to admire in this...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/2005

Review of Beethoven Symphony No 7

Beethoven Symphony No 7

Leopold Stokowski

Cala

For most of the last century the need for an organisation to promote Leopold Stokowski would have seemed laughable, when...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 4/2010

Review of Rare 19th Century Works for Chamber Orchestra

Rare 19th Century Works for Chamber Orchestra

Carl Philip Emanuel Bach Orchestra | Hartmut Haenchen

Classical

Weber was rather sheepish about his two youthful symphonies, and indeed their weaknesses can seem easier to identify than their...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 8/1993

Review of (The) Greatest Romantic Violin Concertos

(The) Greatest Romantic Violin Concertos

Jirí Belohlávek | Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra | Prague Symphony Orchestra | Václav Hudecek | Václav Smetácek

Supraphon

Václav Hudecek made quite a stir in the 1960s and became a protégé of David Oistrakh. These recordings reveal a...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 9/2011

Review of Walter Berry - Liederabend

Walter Berry - Liederabend

Rudolf Buchbinder | Walter Berry

Orfeo d'or

A burst of applause greets another two superbly transferred Festival Documents, as they are earnestly called, from live Austrian Radio...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 3/2000

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