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Yelena Bekman-Shcherbina
The first instalment of Melodiya’s Russian Piano School series was the highlight of my last year’s reviewing (8/95), and the...
Reviewed in issue 8/1996
Symphonic Hollywood, Volume 1
Maria Newman | Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra | Richard Kaufman
Miklos Rozsa composed his Viola Concerto in 1979, following the advice of his old chum Piatigorsky, who suggested he write...
Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 10/1992
Brahms Hungarian Dances
Claudio Abbado | Kurt Masur | Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Both issues offer distringuished performances by two of the world's great orchestras under conductors of stature. The playing of the...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 9/1984
Songs and Dances from Spain
This is an attractive recital of transcriptions of favourite Spanish pieces – I hesitate to describe them as ‘lollipops’ as...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 02/2012
Janácek Lachian Dances; Taras Bulba
Brno Philharmonic Orchestra | Jakub Hrusa
For collectors the novelty here is the Cunning Little Vixen excerpts, not as in Václav Talich’s familiar Suite but in...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 3/2009
Karlowicz: Complete Symphonic Poems
Jerzy Salwarowski | Silesian Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
Had Szymanowski died at the age of 32 would we think of him as anything more than a talented disciple...
Reviewed in issue 5/1990
Brahms Violin Concerto, Op 77. 21 Hungarian Dances, Wo01
Baiba Skride | Lauma Skride | Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra | Sakari Oramo
This performance of the Violin Concerto was recorded at a concert in January 2009. It reveals Baiba Skride as the...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 10/2011
Women at the Piano, Vol 3
Having found myself enveloped in a recent BBC programme devoted to Naxos’s “Women at the Piano” by two ardent but...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/2007
Balakirev; Borodin; Rimsky-Korsakov Orchestral Works
BBC Symphony Orchestra | London Philharmonic Choir | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Thomas Beecham
One of the very few Beecham recordings that I have always found disappointing‚ lacking his characteristic fizz‚ is his 1955...
Reviewed in issue 5/2002
RIISAGER The Symphonic Edition, Vol 1
Aarhus Symphony Orchestra | Bo Holten
This first volume of Dacapo’s Riisager Symphonic Edition contains works composed in his twenties and early thirties, which is to...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 01/2012
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