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(A) Portrait of Herbert von Karajan
With its excellent transfers of vintage EMI recordings, almost every one of these doubles is worth its asking price of...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/2000
Berlioz Grande messe des morts
Elora Festival Orchestra | Michael Schade | Noel Edison | Toronto Mendelssohn Choir
The outstanding element in this performance is the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir and Youth Choir, who have been admirably schooled by...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 7/1999
Bach Harpsichord Concertos, Vol. 1
For all its commitment to baroque music, Opus 111 has never featured Bach prominently in its catalogue, so there is...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 8/2000
Piano Trios
The performers here are new to me, but this ensemble of three Berlin musicians led by the First Concertmaster of...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 7/1988
Bruch Violin Concerto No 1; Brahms Double Concerto
London Symphony Orchestra | Lydia Mordkovitch | Neeme Järvi | Raphael Wallfisch
Mordkovitch and Wallfisch play with a good deal of spirit and poetry in the Double Concerto and the recording captures...
Reviewed in issue 6/1989
BRUCH Die Loreley (Blunier)
Emanuel Geibel’s libretto to Die Loreley is based on an invented saga dating from 1800 which claims a huge rock...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 03/2019
(The) Very Best of Janet Baker
Critic‚ reviewer‚ commentator‚ whatever: we’re all superfluous here. Programme‚ performance‚ recording‚ all are beyond praise. And certainly no word of...
Reviewed in issue 13/2002
GOUNOD Symphonies Nos 1-3
Oleg Caetani | Svizzera Italiana Orchestra
By no means mainstream repertoire, Gounod’s two completed symphonies nevertheless fully merit the finesse and joie de vivre that these...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 01/2015
Eileen Joyce: Complete Parlophone & Columbia Solo Recordings, 1933-45
Eileen Joyce (1912‑91) was an astonishing Australian child prodigy who was born in a tent, grew up in squalor and...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue:
SCHUMANN Symphonies Nos 1 & 2 (de Vriend)
Jan Willem de Vriend | Stavanger Symphony Orchestra
Jan Willem de Vriend has been busy in recent years recording Romantic orchestral masterpieces for Challenge Classics: lots of Beethoven...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2024
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