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Mendelssohn Lobgesang

Lobgesang, Mendelssohn's ''Hymn of Praise'', is no longer a rarity on disc, with a dozen versions listed. That makes it...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 9/1994

Liszt Piano Works, Vol.22

This really is a pretty phenomenal achievement. Leslie Howard takes Liszt's ruthlessly thorough transcriptions of the Beethoven symphonies in his...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 9/1993

Evgeny Kissin Carnegie Hall Debut

Last December (page 1138) Barrymore Laurence Scherer reported on the ''furore'' created by Kissin's New York debut recital. The concert...

Reviewed in issue 3/1991

Mozart Così fan tutte

Of the numerous recordings of Cosi fan tutte in the catalogue, many of them excellent, I don't think there is...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 2/1994

R. Strauss Lieder with Orchestra

Against received opinion I would choose Schwarzkopf’s 1953 account of the Four Last Songs (EMI, 4/88) as my ‘Great Recording’,...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1999

Brahms Violin Concerto; Schumann Symphony No 4

These are live performances, recorded in Vienna in 2007. The Brahms has a real sense of occasion, with Arabella Steinbacher...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 7/2011

Fitkin Chamber Works

When reviewing Graham Fitkin's disc of music for six pianos (Argo, 1/93) JM remarked that ''Fitkin has been seduced by...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 10/1993

Keyboard Classics

This is a disc featuring the 1720 fortepiano by Bartolomeo Cristofori in the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. 'Period...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 2/2000

Mexican Baroque

This is a very exciting disc indeed. We are hardly well-supplied with recordings of baroque music from Spain and Portugal,...

Reviewed in issue 12/1994

Leonard Warren

Up to the present, Nimbus’s Prima Voce series has restricted itself to the transcription of 78rpm vocal recordings made between...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 13/2007

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