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Schubert Piano Duets, Vol. 1

The alternative (ultimately) complete account of Schubert's keyboard duets is that by Isabel Beyer and Harvey Dagul for Four Hands...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 9/1994

R. Strauss Tone Poems

As I wrote last month, Sinopoli's DG recording of these tone-poems will tell you something new about them, their orchestration...

Reviewed in issue 10/1988

Schumann; Wieniawski Violin Concertos

The young Canadian violinist Juliette Kang here plays with quicksilver brilliance not only in the Wieniawski concerto – a virtuoso...

Reviewed in issue 5/2001

Liszt Organ Works

Kauzinger has been acclaimed for his live performances and his recordings have won awards. One can see why. He is...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 2/1991

Bloch Macbeth

More than 20 composers have written operas on the Scottish play‚ almost all of them (Verdi being the great exception)...

Reviewed in issue 11/2001

Intermezzo

A generous modern collection of operatic intermezzos and interludes appears from DG, remarkably at mid-price. It is sponsored by Volvo—perhaps...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 6/1990

Cras Mélodies

Duparc pupil Jean Cras composed most of his works while at sea and his opera Polyphème (2/04), performed at the...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 4/2005

Bach Oboe Concertos

I found plenty of things to enjoy in Holliger's performances of these oboe concerto reconstructions. His sensibility to Bach's melodic...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 1/1986

Romantic Lieder

Fischer-Dieskau's wide-ranging knowledge of song has here brought together examples from four different countries of what are really for the...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 6/1987

Berlioz Harold in Italy/Bruch Scottish Fantasy

It is sad that so inspired a version as this of the Bruch Scottish Fantasy should be coupled with so...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/1997

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