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Schubert Lieder

The five-LP box-set from which these songs have been taken came in the wake of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau's epic survey of...

Reviewed in issue 1/1995

Shostakovich String Quartet No 1; Piano Trio No 2; Piano Quintet

The St Petersburg (formerly Leningrad) Quartet have drawn sustained and widespread praise for their fresh approach to Shostakovich’s quartets, their...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2004

Songs with Guitar

The common factor that links four of the composers in this programme is that they all lived and worked for...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 5/1992

Korngold Sinfonietta

Korngold himself identified three phases of his career: as the teenage prodigy whose precocious brilliance amazed musicians such as Strauss,...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 10/1991

War's Embers

Despite its title and the images chosen to illustrate the accompanying booklet (a war-ravaged landscape by Paul Nash, photographs of...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 6/1988

Philip Wilby Heaven in Ordinarie

Philip Wilby’s versatility as a composer has encompassed all forms of instrumental and vocal music but he’s particularly renowned for...

Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 12/2011

Britten A Midsummer Night's Dream

Britten wrote nothing more sensuous, indeed more sensual than the scene in Act 2 here between Tytania and the transformed...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1993

Humperdinck Hänsel & Gretel

This DVD version of Hänsel und Gretel starts well with the glorious horns of the Dresden Staatskapelle in the overture,...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/2007

Shostakovich Symphony No 5; Rachmaninov Isle of the Dead

Whatever the reputation of Evgeni Svetlanov the apparatchik, his big, bold musical personality was treasured by many and is everywhere...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 1/2008

Campra Grands Motets

After an initial career as a church musician in Toulouse and later in Paris at Notre-Dame, André Campra abandoned it...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 4/2004

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