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HANDEL Messiah
This is Andrew Davis’s second recording of Messiah. His first, made in 1986 for EMI (also with the Toronto Symphony...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2017
Kennedy - Greatest Hits
The portrait on the front of this double-CD package is of Nigel Kennedy – the use of his Christian name...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 1/2003
Fischer-Dieskau - The Opera Singer
The seventieth-birthday presents are still coming in, and here is EMI’s to Fischer-Dieskau the opera singer. Neither fully representative nor...
Reviewed in issue 4/1996
Schumann String Quartets 1 & 3
Schumann dedicated his Op. 41 Quartets to Mendelssohn, and was proud to find them very highly regarded by a musician...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/1987
Brailowsky plays Virtuoso Showpieces
Alexander Brailowsky | Boston Symphony Orchestra | Charles Munch
Brailowsky (1896-1976) invites a subdivided estimate, one which can leave the reader bewildered, devoid of a sense of clarity or...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/1996
REALE Caldera with Ice Cave
Christopher Guzman | Guillermo Figueroa | Jon Robertson | Lynn Philharmonia
In an absorbing album of music written since the turn of the century, Paul Reale displays his Prospero-like command of...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 02/2020
Schumann Violin Sonatas Nos 1 and 2
A most interesting programme of “late” Schumann – the sonatas joined by his final cycle of piano pieces and his...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 10/2010
Eben Faust; (4) Biblical Dances
As I said when discussing Halgeir Schiager’s splendid recording of the Job cycle (Hyperion, 11/00), there is a risk that...
Reviewed in issue 8/2001
PARRY Prometheus Unbound
Chandos already has a Parry catalogue to reckon with, including several of the secular choral works directed by Matthias Bamert....
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 10/2023
Stephan Loges: Nature's Solace
Stephan Loges’s recent appearances on disc have been largely in oratorio and earlier Lieder (by Mendelssohn), but here he offers...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2019
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