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Tippett Orchestral Works
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra | Benjamin Frith | George Hurst
Given that the first movement of Tippett's Piano Concerto grows directly out of the lyrically ecstatic music of his first...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 1/2000
Dvorák Symphonies 1-9 etc
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra | Libor Pesek | Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Pesek’s Dvorak cycle is the first new complete set to have appeared for some years; indeed the recording of the...
Reviewed in issue 8/2001
Great Conductors of the 20th Century – Albert Coates
The stylistic scope of these recent Great Conductors releases is tellingly exemplified by two key recordings of music from Wagner’s...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 3/2003
Russian Piano Works
I could not resist listening to the Liapunov first of all on this CD. Sergey Liapunov (1859–1924) was a contemporary...
Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 7/1989
Dvorák Symphony No 1; The Hero's Song
Neeme Järvi | Royal Scottish National Orchestra
The first of Dvorak's nine symphonies and the last of his symphonic poems come here in a generous coupling, both...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/1989
Prokofiev Complete Piano Sonatas
Peter Dimitriew is a 29-year-old Russian who, like so many pianists of his generation, studied with Lev Naumov. And throughout...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2003
Stokowski Conducts
Easily the finest of these Stokowski reissues is the EMI Phoenixa ''Showcase'' collection. The recordings were made at the unlikely...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/1992
Messiaen Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum
Academy Symphonic Wind | Keith Bragg
Two of the works on this disc – the austere Stravinsky and the expansive Messiaen – were conceived as memorials,...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 13/2006
Strauss, R Josephslegende
Richard Strauss’s Josephslegende (1914) is a truly extraordinary work. It was written for Diaghilev, who wanted something sensational to follow...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 7/2007
Liszt & Mussorgsky Orchestral Works
The work in common to all three of these reissues, as can be seen above, is Les preludes, and very...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 4/1991
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