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Schubert Goethe Lieder

This issue further enhances Pregardien’s reputation as a Schubert interpreter. In a judiciously chosen selection of the Goethe settings, he...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1996

Elgar Falstaff

David Lloyd-Jones presides over a consistently involving, honest-to-goodness account of Falstaff. Here is a more propulsive view of Elgar’s masterpiece...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 2/1999

Bach: Harpsichord Concertos

This, though not so described, is in effect Volume 2, complementing 'Volume 1', issued just over a year ago (...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 1/1989

Walton Cello Concerto

The inspired Dutch cellist Peter Wispelwey here couples the Walton Cello Concerto with a sequence of works for unaccompanied cello....

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/2009

Mozart Concert Arias

It was a good 35 years ago that we first learnt the name of Teresa Stich-Randall and wondered whether to...

Reviewed in issue 12/1987

Glass "Low" Symphony

In which Philip Glass meets the vernacular and finds salvation. Or almost. But first, a few necessary points of clarification....

Reviewed by kshadwick in issue: 5/1993

Shostakovich Cello Concerto No 1; Cello Sonata

The 50th anniversary of Prokofiev’s death in 2003 generated any number of rarities on disc. It was, however, the familiar...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 5/2006

Prokofiev Cinderella Excerpts

This extended selection from Prokofiev's Cinderella is well documented by Richard Freed who, besides providing an excellent background note on...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 1/1986

Rossini Armida

Callas admirers and Rossini collectors of a certain vintage will know all about this recording; where newcomers are concerned‚ it...

Reviewed in issue 13/2002

Gluck Alceste

Orfeo apart, Gluck's operas have been poorly treated by the gramophone. The later, Paris version of Alceste has received only...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1983

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