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Janácek Folk Songs and Dances
Rakos Rakoczy was subtitled “Scenes from Moravian Slovakia”, and is really hardly more than a collection of folk dances and...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 4/1997
Praetorius, M Dances from Terpsichore
Parley of Instruments Renaissance Violin Band | Peter Holman
Praetorius’s 1612 collection has given rise to recordings of variegated plumage‚ with many different sorts and families of instruments –...
Reviewed in issue 10/2001
Vladimir Horowitz Recital
Much of the mystique surrounding the name of Vladimir Horowitz is due to his well-publicized withdrawals from the public arena,...
Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 5/1986
John Harle's Saxophone Songbook
David Roach | Helen Tunstall | John Harle | John Lenehan | Sarah Leonard | Simon Haram
The premise is that a saxophone is a ‘voice’, breath-borne and capable of vibrato, and voices sing songs. This goes...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 2/1996
Korngold Symphonic Serenade; Griffes Roman Sketches
London Symphony Orchestra | Simone Pittau
Charles Tomlinson Griffes's life was cut brutally short in 1920 at the age of only 35. As a kind of...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 2/2007
Kreisler Interpretations
Michala Petri once told me that her first love was for Romantic music even though little existed specifically for the...
Reviewed in issue 9/2001
Santos Symphony No 4; Symphonic Variations
Álvaro Cassuto | National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland
At just under 15 minutes, the Symphonic Variations may be compact, but should in no way be considered a trifle....
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 1/2003
Brahms Hungarian Dances
Katia Labèque | Marielle Labèque
Reviewing the LP version, my colleague JOC found this recital ''as good as champagne'', yet was concerned in places that...
Reviewed in issue 9/1986
Eileen Joyce: Complete Parlophone & Columbia Solo Recordings, 1933-45
Eileen Joyce (1912‑91) was an astonishing Australian child prodigy who was born in a tent, grew up in squalor and...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue:
Violin Arrangements by Jascha Heifetz
Itzhak Perlman | Samuel Sanders
I had not realized that Heifetz made so many arrangements until I compared the contents of this new CD with...
Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 12/1989
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