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Shura Cherkassky - Recital
BBC Symphony Orchestra | Malcolm Sargent | Shura Cherkassky
This year marks the centenary of the birth of Shura Cherkassky (he died in 1995). These two releases are timely...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 8/2009
Pavaniglia - Dances & Madrigals from 17th Century Italy
Andrew Lawrence-King | King's Noyse (The) | Paul O'Dette
This is a very engaging and well-constructed programme, containing some better-known pieces, but concentrating for the most part on Italian...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: /2000
Organ Explosion, Volume 1
As if the complete organ works of Bach and numerous other recording projects for Nimbus weren't enough for Kevin Bowyer,...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 6/2000
Ksenia Kouzmenko: Ranges of Érard
A native of the Belarusian capital Minsk, Ksenia Kouzmenko studied there and at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, where...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: AW18
‘In this Moonlit Night’
Dmitri Hvorostovsky | Ivari Ilja
Dmitri Hvorostovsky was born to sing these songs, and indeed many collectors will probably already have the performance of Mussorgsky’s...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 04/2013
Russian Music for Violin and Piano
Lydia Mordkovitch | Marina Gusak-Grin
Lydia Mordkovitch is a Russian pupil of David Oistrakh who now lives in England; Marina Gusak-Grin has also left her...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 3/1987
(Les) Introuvables d' Alexis Weissenberg
This is Weissenberg’s personal selection, and a wide-ranging, richly fascinating choice it is too. No Schumann and none of his...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 9/2004
Violin Transcriptions by Heifetz
Hideko Udagawa | Pavel Gililov
It is interesting to compare Heifetz's transcriptions with those of Kreisler. Whereas the latter was an accomplished composer, whose original...
Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 12/1988
SAINT-SAËNS Symphonic Poems. Le Carnaval des animaux. L'Assassinat du duc de Guise (Roth)
François-Xavier Roth | Les Siècles
‘I produce music as an apple tree produces apples.’ What a fertile musical imagination Camille Saint-Saëns possessed. It’s easy to...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2023
Respighi Symphonic Poems
Daniele Gatti | Santa Cecilia Academy Orchestra, Rome
This is Daniele Gatti’s debut recording as an orchestral conductor and it is an auspicious one. Respighi’s trilogy of Roman...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 7/1997
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