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Poets from the East
Here is an attractive, undemanding assemblage of piano miniatures, very loosely tied together by the theme of its title. The...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 9/2009
DVORÁK Rusalka (Bolton)
I first watched Christof Loy’s new production of Rusalka when it was streamed live from the Teatro Real in November...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 01/2022
(The) Baroque Lute - Andrew Maginley
I last encountered Andrew Maginley's playing on the “Calliope” album (Avie, 11/06) where he joins contralto Emma Curtis and The...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 12/2006
Prokofiev & Scriabin: Piano Works
Apart from the Scriabin Deux Poemes, none of these pieces is otherwise available on CD, though they are, of course,...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 3/1987
Ravel Daphnis et Chloé; Piano Goncerto in G
Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra | Gary Bertini | Martha Argerich
Surround-sound playback sweetens rather than ups the opulent sonic ante captured by the WDR engineers over the course of the...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2006
Dvorák Orchestral Works
Neeme Järvi | Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Jarvi and the Scottish National Orchestra have produced some superb performances for Chandos in more exotic repertory: here as the...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/1987
DVORÁK Spirit of Bohemia (Fine Arts Quartet)
Anna Kreetta Gribajcevic | Fine Arts Quartet | Jens-Peter Maintz | Niklas Schmidt | Stepan Simonian
The Fine Arts Quartet, founded back in 1946, is one of those ensembles that keeps its name while the players...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2021
Dance Fantasies
Pianist Catherine Gordeladze begins her recital promisingly with hard-hitting yet virile readings of two Rameau-Godowsky transcriptions plus two pure, unadulterated...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2017
DVOŘÁK Symphonies Nos 7 & 8
Andrés Orozco-Estrada | Houston Symphony Orchestra
Big-boned and big-hearted, Dvořák’s late symphonic music has found a good match in the Houston Symphony – on the whole....
Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 05/2016
Mussorgsky Song Cycles
Boris Christoff’s performance of Mussorgsky’s song-cycle The Nursery is one of the most extraordinary pieces of characterisation on disc. That...
Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 7/2003
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