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Live from the BBC - Alfred Brendel
With this two-CD set, Philips launch “Artist’s Choice”, Brendel’s personal selection from previously unpublished live and radio recordings dating from...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2007
Reformation 1517‑2017
Clare Baroque | Clare College Choir, Cambridge | Graham Ross
The face of Martin Luther stares out from the cover of this latest disc from the Choir of Clare College,...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: AW17
Alfred Brendel Theme and Variations 1
These four sets of variations make quite a mixed bag, and the quality of playing is pretty mixed too. Brendel...
Reviewed in issue 1/1991
Grieg & Mendelssohn Choral Works
Håkan Hagegård | Oslo Cathedral Choir | Terje Kvam
Grieg's four sacred songs—he terms them 'psalms'—were his last compositions, written shortly before his death. Jeremy Siepmann has noted the...
Reviewed by mberry in issue: 7/1989
Passiontide
Christopher Stokes | Claire Buckley | Emily Gray | Jeffrey Makinson | Manchester Cathedral Choir
Recorded in January and February of this year‚ this wideranging collection of pieces on the theme of Passiontide is...
Reviewed in issue 6/2002
Toscanini Unpublished HMV Recordings, 1935/38
Arturo Toscanini | BBC Symphony Orchestra
For decades Toscanini's pre-war live BBC recordings had been hidden away in archives, only surfacing on 'unofficial' discs of dubious...
Reviewed in issue 4/1993
Elisabeth Grümmer - Great Singers of the Century
Aribert Reimann | Elisabeth Grümmer
The glorious Hansel on the classic Karajan recording for EMI of Humperdinck’s opera, a famed Donna Anna, Agathe, Elisabeth, Elsa...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: /2000
Benjamin Grosvenor: Homages
There are few young pianists around today to whose latest release one looks forward as eagerly as one does to...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2016
Romantic Christmas Songs
Berlin RIAS Chamber Choir | Uwe Gronostay
The title may be misleading, and very glad I am to have found it so. ‘Romantic’ here does not mean...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/2002
The Romance of the Flute and Harp
The romance of the flute and harp? What, incautiously left too close together in the band-room overnight? Found entwined in...
Reviewed in issue 3/1987
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