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Russian Orchestral Works
Tchaikovsky didn't much care for the 1812, preferring the Serenade for strings which he was composing at the same time....
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 3/1991
(The) Sixteen - Ikon
(The) Sixteen | Harry Christophers
There’s an Eastern Orthodox cast to much of this programme (nearer the surface on some pieces than others) with a...
Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 5/2006
Paderewski - Selected US Victor Recordings 1914-1941
Despite (and often because of) such old-fashioned devices as the asynchronisation of hands and exaggerated rubato, there is playing of...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 3/2009
Piano Rarities Vol 1
There are those pianists who restrict themselves to the compositions of a small number of composers and make very good...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 2/2009
Dances with Winds
Clark Rundell | Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra
As the booklet-notes acknowledge, compositions for wind bands ‘tend toward the lighter side’, though why this should be so is...
Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 5/2005
Respighi Symphonic Poems
Philadelphia Orchestra | Riccardo Muti
The trilogy of Respighi's Roman symphonic poems makes a generous coupling, but till now on LP it has meant making...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/1985
Famous Spanish Dances for 2 Guitars
Pepe and Celin, together with father Celedonio and younger brother Angel, comprise the celebrated Romero family, Spanish emigres living in...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 7/1983
Granados Spanish Dances
Granados’s Spanish Dances are arguably analogous to Chopin’s Mazurkas – a flattering description, no doubt (Granados wrote only 12 against...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 4/1999
Wagenaar, J Symphonic Poems
Antony Hermus | North West German Philharmonic Orchestra
Johan Wagenaar was a Dutch composer roughly contemporary with Elgar: born in 1862, he died in 1941. He began his...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/2010
Natalie Dessay - (The) Miracle of the Voice
In the season of celebration a critic may lead the revels or cast a shadow like the uninvited wedding-guest. In...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 2/2007
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