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Harold Bauer Victor & Schirmer Records
Following their disc of Bauer's 1924-8 recordings (9/93), and this time having the grace to divulge some facts about the...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 4/1994
Sounds of St Giles's
John Harris | Michael Harris | St Giles Cathedral Choir, Edinburgh
This is an attractive and varied programme, very well recorded. The choral works are given polished, vibrant performances with sympathetic...
Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 4/1999
Maria - Cecilia Bartoli
Bartoli is back. “Did she ever go away?” you ask. Well, no, but in that central spotlight which focuses upon...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/2007
Schubert/Schumann Symphonies
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Nikolaus Harnoncourt
“I think of it as one of the greatest symphonic poems” said Harnoncourt of Die schone Melusine in an interview...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 5/1996
Dame Janet Baker - Song Recital
A great joy from beginning to end, especially the beginning in fact (Berlioz's ''Villanelle'', an eager performance of a perfect...
Reviewed in issue 9/1985
Demidenko Live at Wigmore Hall
From January to June of 1993 Nikolai Demidenko gave monthly recitals at the Wigmore Hall under the umbrella title of...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 1/1994
Homage to Eugen Jochum
Eugen Jochum is frequently caricatured as a sort of soft-grained Furtwangler, inspirational, spontaneous, malleable in the extreme and with a...
Reviewed in issue 11/1997
Shura Cherkassky Vol 8
Volumes 7 and 8 in Decca’s “Shura Cherkassky Live” series continue an ear-tickling legend and spell. No other pianist has...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/1996
Passiontide at St Paul's
Andrew Lucas | John Scott | St Paul's Cathedral Choir
Among the attractions of this recital is the singing of the four treble soloists, especially that of Connor Burrowes, who...
Reviewed in issue 13/1997
Piano Etudes Recital
Ian Fountain | Navah Perlman | Roustem Saitkoulov
Here are three very different pianists, presented with the benefit of excellent engineering, attractive pricing and widespread distribution, and part...
Reviewed in issue 6/2001
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