HAMELIN New Piano Works

Marc-André Hamelin

Oh. My. Word. This is, I think, an important recording, not merely because it captures some of the most astonishing...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2024

Folias Festivas

It seems that the folias originated as a lively – not to say wild – street dance in Portugal. The...

Reviewed in issue 12/2001

Brahms/Dvorák/Janácek Works for Violin & Piano

Akiko Suwanai | Boris Berezovsky

The variety here is more in the programming than in the playing. Dvorak’s Romantic Pieces open to a brand of...

Reviewed in issue 10/1999

BRAHMS Double Concerto VIOTTI Violin Concerto DVOŘÁK Silent Woods

Berlin Deutsches Symphony Orchestra | Christian Tetzlaff | Paavo Järvi | Tanja Tetzlaff

The dedication on this album reads ‘In Memoriam Lars Vogt’ – and that gives it a special resonance. Christian Tetzlaff...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/2023

Dvorák Orchestral Works

Charles Mackerras | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Seiji Ozawa | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Vienna's Musikverein audience shows enthusiastic approval at the end of Ozawa's Dvorak Eighth Symphony; the listener at home might wonder...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 4/1994

Prokofiev Cinderella; Summer Night Suite

Mikhail Pletnev | Russian National Orchestra

This is an outstanding release, well up to the standards of the same team's Rachmaninov Second Symphony (6/94 – my...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 6/1995

Sounding Out

Keith Bragg | Royal Academy of Music Symphonic Wind

The Royal Academy of Music Symphonic Winds are a very impressive ensemble indeed, both in their ability to blend, and...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/2004

Maw Ghost Dances;La Vita Nuova;Roman Canticle

Carmen Pelton | Christopher Kendall | Twentieth Century Consort | William Sharp

Nicholas Maw’s originality may not be the kind that leaps up and yells in your face; but original he certainly...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 10/1997

Dvorák Symphony 6

Czech Philharmonic Orchestra | Václav Neumann

Vaclav Neumann's way with early Dvorak is hardly a coaxing one, and indeed his forceful directness in the first movement...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/1985

DVORÁK Tone Pictures, Op 85 (Leif Ove Andsnes)

Leif Ove Andsnes

Dvořák’s 13 Poetic Tone Pictures (1889) have been recorded what is perhaps a surprising number of times. None of them...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2022