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'Strauss Alliance'
Andris Nelsons has just completed his Bruckner symphony cycle with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and has nearly reached the end of...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2022
Smetana/Dvorák String Quartets
Alban Berg Qt | Cleveland Qt | Orlando Quartet
Choosing between the Alban Berg and Orlando discs depends on whether it's the Dvorak or the Smetana that interests you...
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 3/1992
Sawer From Morning to Midnight - Symphonic Suite
David Sawer is now in his mid-forties, and this disc charts aspects of his stylistic development since the mid-1990s. The...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 4/2007
Vilde Frang: Homage
For openers Vilde Frang treats us to a chirpy morsel by Franz Ries, La capricciosa, a piece that as a...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2018
Brahms Hungarian Dances; Moszkowski (20) Small Studies for Piano Op 91
This delightful record gives us world première recordings of both Moszkowski’s Etudes Op 91 and his arrangement for solo piano...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 8/2003
Valen Symphonic Poems and Orchestral Songs
Dorothy Dorow | Miltiades Caridis | Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
An important and most welcome reissue: the music of Fartein Valen (1887-1952) is far too little known outside Norway, although...
Reviewed in issue 6/1993
Borodin Symphonies and Overtures etc
Andrew Davis | Saulius Sondeckis | St Petersburg Camerata | Toronto Symphony Orchestra
At bargain price in Sony’s Essential Classics series, this makes a most recommendable compilation, with Andrew Davis’s bluff and bouncy...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/1996
Piano Dance - Gloria Cheng
Cheng is known to the British catalogue for her recordings of Messiaen (9/96) and Adams and Riley (3/99). This new...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 11/2000
Bach's Sons Chamber Music
(Les) Adieux | Mischa Maisky | Pavel Gililov
The cello lends itself particularly well to the slower, more romantic type of encore piece, and particularly ill (some will...
Reviewed in issue 7/1991
Gianneo In the Altiplano; 3 Argentinian Dances; Music for Children
Dora De Marinis | Elena Dabul | Fernando Viani | Pervez Mody
Luis Gianneo (1897-1968), along with Juan José Castro, was instrumental in forging an authentically Argentinian musical voice combining European influences...
Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 12/2002
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