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Schumann Lieder

Price's lengthening list of Lieder recordings has already included a much-admired version of Frauenliebe for Classics for Pleasure (9/73—nla). Twenty...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1994

Haydn String Quartets, Op.64

My immediate reaction, on noticing that Hungaroton had decided to reissue the Tatrai Quartet's 1964-5 mono recording of Haydn's six...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 5/1987

Igor Lovchinsky - Debut Recordings

Lovchinsky, Russian-born (1984) and living in the States since 1994, proves in this debut recording to be the real deal...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 1/2009

Schobert Sonatas, Op. 16

Schobert, like the King of the Elephants, whom Babar succeeded, died from eating poisoned mushrooms. He was born, perhaps in...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 1/1997

Puccini Manon Lescaut

As I predicted in my review of the LP version of this digital remastering, CD in this instance loses out....

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 9/1986

Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 5

Playing these two versions of the First Concerto's opening movement one after the other is a telling exercise in comparative...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2006

Play

Just about the only common factors in these pieces are an immediately engaging surface appearance and Joanna MacGregor’s personal enthusiasm...

Reviewed in issue 1/2002

Britten The Folk Songs

Britten's 'complete' folk-song arrangements came out not long ago on Hyperion, with Malcolm Martineau as pianist and the excellent Lorna...

Reviewed in issue 11/1995

Beethoven Piano Sonatas

Budget-conscious collectors with a taste for musical adventure are already indebted to the American Vox company. At a time when...

Reviewed in issue 11/1993

David Tudor: Music for Piano

“David Tudor was no longer a name, but an indication of instrumentation,” writes Frank Hilberg as he introduces this survey...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 10/2007

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