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Brahms (Die) Schöne Magelone; Schubert Lieder

Nineteen-sixty-five was the year which brought Fischer-Dieskau to Aldeburgh. More surprisingly, it brought Brahms also (Brahms being the composer of...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 9/2009

Bruckner Symphony No 7

Karajan's 1971 EMI recording of Bruckner's Seventh Symphony, originally issued as a three-LP set with the Fourth Symphony, is so...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 6/1989

Spanish Royal Gala

For me the music of the Spanish zarzuela, with its seemingly endless fund of melody, is one of the joys...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 11/1992

Nielsen Chamber Works for Violin and Strings

Here is a disc to delight anyone who has enjoyed Nielsen’s incomparable autobiography, My Childhood on Fyn, and who has...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 4/2007

Ravel Mélodies

Since the 1860s the French song limelight has rather been hogged by MM Faure, Duparc, Debussy and Poulenc, with Ravel’s...

Reviewed in issue 7/2001

Serenade

Serenata of London play without a conductor, but with a leader (Barry Wilde). At least this policy ensures experience (as...

Reviewed in issue 11/1987

Shostakovich Symphony No.7

There was a time when sneering remarks about the Leningrad Symphony were de rigueur—when the in joke was Ernest Newman's...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 8/1988

Haydn London Symphonies, Volume 3

This is the third instalment in Leonard Slatkin’s series of Haydn’s “London” Symphonies (the first was reviewed in 2/95), again...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/1997

Pichl Symphonies

Wenzel Pichel (1741-1805)—or, to use the name he was born with, Vaclav Pichl—was one of the most prolific composers of...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 5/1994

Couperin: Chamber & Orchestral Works

Modern ensembles have always tended to shy away from the French baroque repertory—Lully, Couperin and Rameau for example—because of its...

Reviewed in issue 2/1991

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