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R.Strauss: 8 Lieder and Metamorphosen

No Strauss devotee will need prompting from me to acquire Clemens Krauss's interpretation of Metamorphosen. This elegiac masterpiece came to...

Reviewed in issue 9/1988

Schubert Winterreise

Neither of these accounts of Winterreise is the one I would have chosen to represent the respective singer. In the...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/2003

Pergolesi Stabat Mater; Salve Regina in C minor

Pergolesi's setting of the Stabat mater was commissioned, probably by the Neapolitan brotherhood of the Cavalieri della Vergine dei dolori,...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 2/1990

Guarnieri Piano Concertos Nos 1 - 3

This is a most encouraging issue. In the wake of BIS’s continuing series of Mozart Camargo Guarnieri’s symphonies, Naxos –...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 5/2005

Corelli Concerti Grossi, Volume 1

There are for most of us definitive interpretations of familiar works, some of them live, some recorded. We can never...

Reviewed in issue 9/1996

Wagner Tristan und Isolde

I don't think these CD transfers much alter my opinion of the performances except, if possible, to enhance my liking...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1988

Copland Piano Concerto

Copland’s concise Piano Concerto languished virtually unknown for decades after its 1926 premiere. Then Copland recorded it himself with Bernstein...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 13/2008

Howells Chamber Works

Herbert Howells wrote a brief note about his Piano Quartet, slightly defensively justifying his having written such an effusion of...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 10/1993

Vaughan Williams Choral Works

Hubert Foss, surveying the English public in 1949, conceded that it was gradually discovering Vaughan Williams in his old age....

Reviewed in issue 8/1992

Beethoven Funeral Cantata; Mass in C

The Cantata is an astonishing work for a teenager. Beethoven wrote it in 1790 when he was 19, producing a...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/2009

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