Reviews

www.classicalcdreview.com | January 2009 | R.E.B. | January 1, 2009 |

Another treasure from the vaults—this time from Berlin, a 1952 live performance before a very appreciative audience of Gershwin's Porgy & Bess.Mehr lesen


Crescendo Magazine | Janvier - Février 2009 | Bernard Postiau | January 1, 2009 |

Wilhelm Kempff et Lorin Maazel chez audite
Tout témoignage de Wilhelm Kempff est à thésauriser soigneusement. Son autorité, son classicisme pourtant teinté d’une grande personnalitéMehr lesen


Pizzicato | 1/2009 | Alain Steffen | January 1, 2009 |

Abenteuer Musik
Wenn es derzeit einen Preis für die interessantesten Booklets geben würde, so wäre meine Wahl schnell gefallen. Anstatt die immergleichenMehr lesen


Fanfare | | Richard A. Kaplan | November 30, 2008 |

Want List for Richard A. Kaplan
Rather than attempt to come up with a “best of” list, I prefer to think of my annual Want List as a medium for calling attention to recordingMehr lesen


??? | | George Dorris | November 30, 2008 |

Music on Disc
Only three of Johann Strauss's fifteen operettas achieved real success, while even The Gypsy Baron and A Night in Venice lag behind the popularity ofMehr lesen


Fanfare | | Henry Fogel | November 30, 2008 |

Want List for Henry Fogel
The Bartoli/Flórez combination in La sonnambula makes for a truly great Bellini recording. You’ll want to keep your Callas (especially the live oneMehr lesen


Fanfare | | Ronald E. Grames | November 30, 2008 |

Want List for Ronald E. Grames
The budget-priced 12-disc Audite release of the complete surviving Furtwängler/Berlin Philharmonic RIAS recordings has to top my list of fiveMehr lesen


Arte | | November 30, 2008 |

Spécial été 2009
Si les vacances ont vocation à être agréables, rien ne leur interdit d'être source de découvertes. Mais réviser ses classiques, retrouver desMehr lesen


Fanfare | | Robert Maxham | November 30, 2008 |

Want List for Robert Maxham
This year’s wants bear connections to the greatest of the great violinists. Dynamic’s eight-CD set offers a synoptic view of Paganini’s worksMehr lesen


www.walckerorgel.de | Dezember 2008 | Gerhard Walcker-Mayer | December 28, 2008 |

Transsylvanien, das hört sich nach Graf Dracula, einsamen Burgen und tiefdunkelgrüne Wälder an. Nur wenige dringen ein in das Dickicht dieserMehr lesen


The Ottawa Citizen | December 27, 2008 | Richard Todd | December 27, 2008 |

Fasten your seatbelt for this musical ride
Shostakovich: String Quartets, vol. 3 -- Manderling SQ (Audite): Does the world need this set from the Manderlings? Possibly not but, on the basis ofMehr lesen


Audiophile Audition | December 2008 | Gary Lemco | December 21, 2008 |

A truly happy discovery for the connoisseur, these inscriptions, one live (the Liszt, from the Titania Palast, Berlin, 11 February 1952) and oneMehr lesen


Audiophile Audition | December 2008 | John Sunier | December 19, 2008 |

I apologize for the absurdly long delay since I reviewed Vol. II of this two-disc set back in 2005, and for reviewing the second volume before theMehr lesen


Audiophile Audition | December 2008 | John Sunier | December 19, 2008 |

I apologize for the absurdly long delay since I reviewed Vol. II of this two-disc set back in 2005, and for reviewing the second volume before theMehr lesen


www.new-classics.co.uk | December 2008 | John Pitt | December 18, 2008 |

Ferenc Fricsay was born in Budapest in 1914 and studied music under Béla Bartók, Zoltán Kodály and Ernst von Dohnányi. He had a meteoric rise toMehr lesen


www.musicweb-international.com | December 2008 | Gwyn Parry-Jones | December 18, 2008 |

Ein Heldenleben is something of a problematic piece. Apart from its – let’s be charitable – slightly tongue-in-cheek biographical programme, itMehr lesen


www.new-classics.co.uk | December 2008 | John Pitt | December 18, 2008 |

George Gershwin's ‘American folk opera’ Porgy and Bess was first performed in New York in 1935 with a cast of classically trained African-AmericanMehr lesen


www.musicweb-international.com | December 2008 | Göran Forsling | December 17, 2008 |

Splendid singing, outstanding conducting and lively action ...<br /> <br /> Hard on the heels of the old Decca recording under Clemens Krauss appeared this evenMehr lesen


Berliner Zeitung | Nummer 293 - 13./14. Dezember 2008 | Peter Uehling | December 13, 2008 |

Nur mit den Ohren hört man gut
Die besten Schallplatten des Jahres 2008: Redakteure und Autoren der…
Peter Uehling, Kategorie „Eine CD für Einsteiger“:<br /> Mozart Klavierkonzert d-Moll und Jupiter-Sinfonie<br /> Wilhelm Kempff, Klavier; BerlinerMehr lesen


Saarländischer Rundfunk | SR 2 KulturRadio, CD-Neuheiten - 13.12.2008, 16:00 | Friedrich Spangemacher | December 13, 2008 |

Unsere erste Station führt uns ca. 50 Jahre zurück, zu Ferenc Fricsays Mozart-Einspielungen der 50er Jahre mit dem RIAS-Symphonie Orchester –Mehr lesen

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