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Der Tod Und Das Madchen - Musical history is peppered with stories of luke-warm or downright disastrous premieres of now-beloved works, from riots over Stravinsky's Rite of Spring to an under-rehearsed orchestra and over-stuffed programme for Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony. The path to greatness rarely runs smoothly, it seems. So it was for Schubert's Der Tod und...

The Wanderer: Lieder & Fragments - The partnership of Bostridge and Andsnes must be one of the most musically satisfying of recent years. Their love and understanding of Schubert's music has produced a clutch of definitive performances both on stage and on disc, and so another CD is always to be welcomed. I say this whilst...

Gustav Mahler - Mahler - Lieder (baritone: Christian Gerhaher, piano: Gerold Huber) -

This Mahler recital provokes comparisons with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Leonard Bernstein in many of the same songs back in 1968, and that’s already to pay the newcomer the highest of compliments. But Gerhaher’s eloquent sleeve notes take us back to Schumann and Schubert, and an approach to poetry that was...

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