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Review of Menuhin plays Popular Violin Concertos

Menuhin plays Popular Violin Concertos

Bath Festival Orchestra | Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Christian Ferras | Efrem Kurtz | Philharmonia Orchestra | Rudolf Kempe | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra | Walter Susskind | Yehudi Menuhin

EMI

Admirers of Sir Yehudi Menuhin will be pleased to have this compilation of his early stereo recordings of the major...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 11/1991

Review of Hear my Prayer

Hear my Prayer

Adrian Lucas | Jeremy Budd | John Scott | St Paul's Cathedral Choir

Hyperion

With his 78rpm recording of Hear my prayer (now transferred to CD—EMI (CD) CDH7 63827-2), Ernest Lough became one of...

Reviewed in issue 10/1991

Review of Lieder on Poems of Heinrich Heine

Lieder on Poems of Heinrich Heine

Kevin McMillan | Michael McMahon

Musica Viva

The Canadian baritone Kevin McMillan has made quite a reputation for himself as an interpreter of Lieder. He proves his...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1993

Review of Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto, Op 35

Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto, Op 35

Anne-Sophie Mutter | Augustin Dumay | Emil Tchakarov | Herbert von Karajan | London Symphony Orchestra | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

EMI

It has been fascinating to study Mutter's live recording of a performance I heard in the Grosses Festspielhaus at Salzburg...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 1/1989

Review of (A) Century of Domestic Keyboards, 1727 - 1832

(A) Century of Domestic Keyboards, 1727 - 1832

Joanna Leach

Athene

Joanna Leach devotes 15 tracks to a 1727 spinet by Thomas Barton, five to a 1787 Longman & Broderip square...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 13/2008

Review of Claudio Abbado: The Last Concert

Claudio Abbado: The Last Concert

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks | Claudio Abbado | Deborah York | Stella Doufexis

Berlin Philharmoniker

Claudio Abbado stepped down from his post as chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in May 2002 on the...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 07/2018

Review of On Wings of Song

On Wings of Song

Ann Murray | Felicity Lott | Graham Johnson

EMI

This is a welcome encore to the same performers' well-received ''Sweet Power Of Song'' (CDC7 49930-2, 11/90). Once again Graham...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1992

Review of Bach/Mendelssohn St Matthew Passion

Bach/Mendelssohn St Matthew Passion

(Das) Neue Orchester | Alison Browner | Angela Kazimierczuk | Chorus Musicus | Christoph Spering | Franz-Josef Selig | Markus Schäfer | Peter Lika | Wilfried Jochens

Opus 111

When Mendelssohn conducted Bach's St Matthew Passion at the Berlin Singakademie in March 1829 the public was greatly impressed by...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 9/1993

Review of Instruments from the Rodger Mirrey Collection

Instruments from the Rodger Mirrey Collection

John Kitchen

Delphian

Lucky John Kitchen! Not only has he had the run of the famous Edinburgh-based Raymond Russell Collection of historic keyboard...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2010

Review of Beecham Favourites

Beecham Favourites

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Thomas Beecham

Eminence

For some years after Sir Thomas Beecham died his records were reissued frequently, especially various combinations of his favourite pieces,...

Reviewed in issue 12/1986

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