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Dvorák String Quintet & Sextet
Dvorak's Quintet dates from the same time as his American Quartet, when he was staying happily surrounded though touched by...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 8/1989
Sibelius/Rongström - Songs
Elisabeth Meyer-Topsøe | Per Salo
Meyer-Topsoe, who made such a good impression with her CD of Strauss’s Four Last Songs and Wagner’s Wesendonk-Lieder six years...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: /2000
Alwyn Symphony No 4; Sinfonietta
David Lloyd-Jones | Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
William Alwyn planned his first four symphonies as a unified cycle, so the Fourth (completed in 1959 and premiered by...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 5/2006
Elgar/Walker Piano Concerto & Other Orchestral Works
BBC Concert Orchestra | BBC Singers | David Lloyd-Jones | David Owen Norris
Initially entitled Fragments of Elgar and premièred in August 1997 by David Owen Norris with the Dartington Festival Orchestra under...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 5/2005
Strauss, R Complete Works for Wind Ensemble
Academy Symphonic Wind | Keith Bragg
Strauss wrote his Serenade in E flat for 13 instruments in 1881, when he was only 17. It is essentially Mozartian...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 1/2008
Glinka Orchestral Works
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra | Vassily Sinaisky
Following on the heels of ASV’s selection of Glinka’s orchestral music, with the Armenian Philharmonic under Loris Tjeknavorian, comes this...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 4/2001
DVOŘÁK Concerto for Cello and Orchestra Op.104
Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra | Jun Märkl | Zuill Bailey
Dvořák wrote his masterly Cello Concerto in 1894-95, at the end of his American period, during which he was director...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 05/2012
Scriabin Piano Concerto; Prometheus
This outwardly enticing disc suggests a division of theory and practice. For while it is interesting to hear Vasily Rogal-Levitsky's...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 4/2000
Dvorák Orchestral Works
Ulster Orchestra | Vernon Handley
It was an inspired idea to team up Vernon Handley with the excellent Ulster Orchestra for this admirably devised and...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 7/1986
DVOŘÁK; LALO Cello Concertos
Jakub Hrusa | Johannes Moser | Prague Philharmonia
At first hearing, this disc suggested admirable directness and some very lyrical phrasing. With rhythmically taut and well-drilled orchestral support...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW2015
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