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Jorge Bolet - Piano Encores
Encores in the concert hall were of two types: stunning, to have the natives gasping; relaxing, after a tornado of...
Reviewed in issue 7/1987
Medtner Complete Works for Violin and Piano
Hamish Milne | Manoug Parikian
First impressions were formed with a sinking feeling that this is not the happiest of tributes to the late Manoug...
Reviewed in issue 12/1995
Dvorák Czech Suite (B93); Waltzes (B101); Polonaise (B100)
Jakub Hrusa | Prague Philharmonia
This is a delightful collection of Dvorák in relaxed mood. All three works date from 1879, just when German publishers...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/2006
Works for Piano & Orchestra
Andrew Davis | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Tzimon Barto
EMI's latest promotion certainly takes a striking photo which can do him no harm at all in today's market—and his...
Reviewed in issue 1/1989
Stokowski conducts Philadelphia Rarities
“Everybody in the whole Academy was singing – except one music critic,” recalled a light-hearted Leopold Stokowski at a 1935...
Reviewed in issue 5/1996
BORODIN Piano Quintet. String Quartet No 2
Goldner Quartet | Julian Smiles | Piers Lane
The comparative novelties here are Borodin’s Piano Quintet in C minor and his Cello Sonata in B minor – comparative,...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 03/2017
Live from the Philharmonie
Orchestre de Paris | Paavo Järvi
The Philharmonie de Paris, Western Europe’s newest concert hall, is about as far from the centre of France’s capital as...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 05
Xavier de Maistre: Moldau
Xavier de Maistre last graced these pages in October 2013 with a stunning disc of Mozart. His performance of the...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2015
Dvorák Symphonies Nos 7 and 9
(Royal) Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam | Carlo Maria Giulini
Typically, Giulini has allowed himself more musical time for his latest explorations of these symphonies, and the obvious point to...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 11/1994
BRAHMS; DVOŘÁK; GRIEG Music for Piano Four Hands
Claire Chevallier | Jos van Immerseel
These are two distinguished artists so I hesitate to say it, but this recording made me extremely grumpy. For a...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2017
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