Browse: Testament (label)

This 1951 mono recording set the benchmark for many years, and so it probably did much to establish the current, questionable norms of tempo. But it's superb performance, played with skill and... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2008 More…

The world premiere of Four Last Songs in its best transfer ever, plus some previously unissued Wagner from the same concert. — BBC Music Magazine, September 2007, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The strong emotions that soloist and conductor doubtless felt within six months of the composer's death ensure that there is more than enough raw and authentic feeling to counter any purely technical... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2010 More…

There have never been any doubts about these performances. The horn playing in the Sinfoniaconcertante is unsurpassable and in the quintets Gieseking's lightness and his clarity and sense of... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Over the night of 13-14 April 1959 in St Gabriel's Church, Cricklewood, a recording session took place, historic in every way, when the young Charles Mackerras conducted a band of 62 wind players... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

[Keilberth] is urgent and passionate, and the thrust of the performance makes the result intensely exciting, inspiring the great Wagnerian singers in the cast to give of their finest...here... — Penguin Guide, 2010, 3 out of 4 stars More…