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Beethoven Symphonies Nos 5 and 7

It is interesting to reflect that in 1974 there was not a single entry under the name 'Kleiber, Carlos' in...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 5/1995

Beethoven Edition, Vol. 4 - Leonore & Fidelio

The 20-volume Complete Beethoven Edition with with which DG celebrate their own centenary has provided the opportunity for an overview...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 13/1997

Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos 3 & 4

This revealing Beethoven disc contains two recently discovered broadcast performances from 1943 of Rubinstein and Ormandy in the Third Concerto...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 8/2003

Ruders The Handmaid's Tale

Poul Ruders says of his vividly imaginative opera that he composed it ‘as though I were directing a film’. Precisely:...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 3/2001

Kreutzer & Witt Septets

The last time a chamber work by the little-known Friedrich Witt appeared on records in this country, it was also...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1987

Bach Suites, BWV1010-1012

Recorder transcriptions of the Bach cello suites? There are already versions for viola, guitar and lute, to name only a...

Reviewed in issue 7/2001

Spohr String Quintets, Volume 3

The third volume of the New Haydn Quartet’s series of complete Spohr string quintets begins with one of the finest...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 5/1996

Beethoven Piano Sonatas

Illness and private tragedy dogged Arrau's last years, yet still he returned to the piano and to the recording studio...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/1993

Mahler Symphony No 5

Barbirolli’s oft-acclaimed Fifth has its glories: the tragic eruptions of the first movement are put across with greater force than...

Reviewed in issue 3/1999

Wagner Lohengrin

Lohengrin has fared reasonably well on disc. I have listed above the better of the sets currently available, and none...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1996

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