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Stokowski Transcriptions
Marjana Lipovsek | Philadelphia Orchestra | Wolfgang Sawallisch
It is good to find the Philadelphia at last paying tribute to Leopold Stokowski, the genius who more than anyone...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/1996
Great Pianists - Horowitz
‘Horowitz Rediscovered’, the title of RCA’s two-disc album, prompts a sea of reflections. Aged 72 at the time of his...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 8/2003
Mussorgsky Songs & Dances of Death. Svirdov Russia Adrift
Evgeny Talisman | Lina Mkrtchian
Lina Mkrtchian has a strong voice with a wide range of colour, impressively wide when she allies this to sharply...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 8/1999
Alliage Quintet: Fantasia
Alliage Quintet | Sabine Meyer
Cocktail-lounge Borodin has limited appeal. Smoky saxophones slink and shimmy through the Polovtsian Dances to open this unusual disc from...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 05/2016
Dvorák Symphony No 7
Colin Davis | London Symphony Orchestra
Back in November 1975, Sir Colin Davis and the Concertgebouw Orchestra set down what remains one of the finest accounts...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 6/2003
Bartók, Strauss R & Stravinsky Violin Works
Boris Berezovsky | Vadim Repin
Here‚ following his earlier Rachmaninov discs‚ 28yearold Nikolai Lugansky concentrates on the composer’s youthful ardour and intricacy. And as on...
Reviewed in issue 13/2001
(The) Unknown Richard Struass, Vol 4
Bamberg Symphony Orchestra | Karl Anton Rickenbacher
Koch Schwann has been commemorating the 50th anniversary of the composer’s death with an ‘Unknown Strauss’ edition. This, their fourth...
Reviewed in issue 5/1999
Brahms Symphony No 4; Hungarian Dances Nos 2, 4-9
London Philharmonic Orchestra | Marin Alsop
The LPO, London’s finest Brahms ensemble, has been in vintage form during this cycle under Marin Alsop’s measured and thoughtful...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 2/2008
Veronika Ilinskaya
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra | Michael Seal | Veronika Ilinskaya
This unusual programme couples the Scriabin Concerto with solo piano music by Medtner and Prokofiev. Medtner was as scornful as...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 7/2010
Respighi Ancient Airs and Dances
Jesús López-Cobos | Lausanne Chamber Orchestra
Not unexpectedly this new Telarc disc has warm, full sound, yet with refined detail, and the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra plays...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 9/1992
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