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Prokofiev On the Dneiper; Songs of Our Days
One of the joys of this 50th anniversary year of Prokofiev’s death has been the chance to reassess some of...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 7/2003
(The) Pavão Quartet - Someone to watch over me
Here’s a collection of jazz standards culled from what’s often referred to as “The Great American Songbook”. Carlo Martelli’s arrangements...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2006
Brahms Piano Concerto No 1; Hungarian Dances for Piano Four Hands
Frank Braley | Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra | Nicholas Angelich | Paavo Järvi
If you're drawn to weighty, full-throated, hearty, dark and occasionally angst-ridden Brahms First Concerto interpretations along the lines of Buchbinder/Harnoncourt,...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 6/2008
Lumbye More Galops, Marches and Dances
The career of Hans Christian Lumbye makes a fascinating story. Starting as a trumpeter in the Danish dragoon guards, he...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/1994
Gershwin Works for Piano & Orchestra
Howard Shelley | Philharmonia Orchestra | Yan Pascal Tortelier
Anyone who can shape Rachmaninov with Shelley's instinctive feeling for those subtle internal rubatos has to be a natural for...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 3/1993
Russian Opera Choruses
Alexander Lazarev | Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra | Bolshoi Theatre Chorus
Secretly, let's face it-or is this one of those heresies with which the guilty soul has to live companionless?-the moments...
Reviewed in issue 5/1994
Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue, Piano Concerto
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra | Riccardo Chailly | Stefano Bollani
The performance of the Concerto is the finest I have ever heard. Gershwin may have doffed his hat to...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 5/2011
Lang Lang Dragon Songs
Lang Lang has a knack for building interesting programmes, none more personal, perhaps, than his latest release. It encompasses a...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 3/2007
Dvorák Legends etc
Dvorak’s 1881 Legends are like Brahmsian Slavonic Dances – intimate music, mostly reflective and invariably light-hearted. One might also think...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2000
Dvorák Orchestral Works
According to Discover International's booklet-notes, the Iranian conductor Alexander Rahbari has been chief of the Belgian Radio and Television Orchestra...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 3/1994
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