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House of Dreams
Jeanne Lamon | Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra
A couple of years back, Tafelmusik’s ‘Galileo Project’ (6/12) linked Baroque music with images and readings reflecting the scientific advances...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2014
Russian Orchestral Works
Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra | Neeme Järvi
The 25-minute first movement of Scriabin's Divine Poem is often something of an endurance test. Not so under Jarvi. His...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 10/1991
CASELLA Concerto for Orchestra, Op 61. Symphonic Fragments from 'La donna serpente', Op 50
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra | Gianandrea Noseda | Martin Roscoe
The music of Alfredo Casella (1883-1947) charts a fascinating stylistic journey. Early in his career he was a bold progressive...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2012
Dvorák Orchestral Works
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra | Jirí Belohlávek
Jiri Belohlavek is a lucid, sure-footed guide through Dvorak’s mightiest symphonic utterance, and his sympathetic direction combines both warm-hearted naturalness...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 1/1996
Dvorák Orchestral Works
As I expected after his previous recordings, both for Supraphon and for Chandos, Jiri Belohlavek directs the Czech Philharmonic in...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/1992
Barbirolli at the Opera
Hallé Orchestra | John Barbirolli
Hearing these glowing performances, full of Barbirolli’s characteristic expressiveness and panache, brings it home how sad it is that he...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/1996
Emil Gilels Piano Recital
This disc is a healthy reminder of something that should hardly need saying—that great pianism does not consist of immaculate...
Reviewed in issue 4/1993
Dvorák Orchestral Works
(Royal) Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam | Colin Davis | London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Colin Davis's magnificent Amsterdam Dvorak Seventh remains one of the most compellingly taut available: gloriously played and paced to...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 8/1993
Dvorak - Songs My Great-Grandfather Taught Me
Josef Suk | Vladimir Ashkenazy
Josef Suk celebrated his 80th birthday last August; the following month he was in the studio with Vladimir Ashkenazy to...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 3/2010
Tippett Orchestral Works
I reacted enthusiastically to this release on its initial appearance and find no reason to amend my views five years...
Reviewed in issue 10/2001
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