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Review of Grechaninov Passion Week

Grechaninov Passion Week

Charles Bruffy | Kansas City Chorale | Phoenix Bach Choir

Chandos

Grechaninov’s masterly oratorio was written in 1911 or 1912 but remained essentially unknown until Polyansky recorded it with the Russian...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 6/2007

Review of Dvorak & Friends - Czech Wind Music

Dvorak & Friends - Czech Wind Music

Charles Kavalovski | New York Harmonie Ensemble | Scott Brubaker | Steven Richman

Music & Arts

''Dvorak and Friends'' is this record's whimsical title. 'Friends' is pushing it a bit: Krommer (1759-1831) and Myslivecek (1737-81) were...

Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 8/1992

Review of 6-Wire

6-Wire

6-Wire

Meyer Media

In the midst of premiering new works by Mark Hagerty, Bright Sheng and Jennifer Barker and getting ready to make...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 11/2018

Review of Dvorák Tone Poems

Dvorák Tone Poems

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Simon Rattle

EMI

Much to admire, as one would expect from such highly accomplished protagonists. The Berliners play with exquisite poise and sensitivity,...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 9/2005

Review of Dvorák Chamber Works

Dvorák Chamber Works

Coull Qt | Peter Buckoke

Hyperion

The delectable G major 'Double Bass' Quintet has a particularly interesting history in that it was composed far earlier than...

Reviewed in issue 10/1994

Review of DVOŘÁK Symphony No 9. The Noon Witch

DVOŘÁK Symphony No 9. The Noon Witch

Marcus Bosch | Nürnberg State Philharmonic Orchestra

Coviello

With this live recording of the Ninth, Marcus Bosch is close to concluding his Dvořák cycle for Coviello. As in...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2017

Review of Works for Piano and Orchestra

Works for Piano and Orchestra

Alfred Wallenstein | Arthur Rubinstein | Eugene Ormandy | Philadelphia Orchestra | Symphony of the Air (New York)

Red Seal

RCA's series of Rubinstein reissues are providing some immensely invigorating listening for me, and in their CD format I am...

Reviewed in issue 10/1987

Review of BRAHMS Symphonies Nos 1& 2 DVORÁK Symphonies Nos6 & 7 (Hrůša)

BRAHMS Symphonies Nos 1& 2 DVORÁK Symphonies Nos6 & 7 (Hrůša)

Bamberger Symphoniker | Jakub Hrusa

Tudor

I was listening to this pair of two-disc sets – completing Jakub Hrůša and the Bamberg Symphony’s series juxtaposing the...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2022

Review of Mascagni in Concert

Mascagni in Concert

Federico Giarbella | Filarmonia 900 | Gianandrea Noseda | Luciano Ganci | Sergey Galaktionov

Chandos

Gianandrea Noseda’s latest expedition down lesser-trodden musical byways of his native country presents us with a chronologically wide-ranging orchestral programme...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2013

Review of RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Sheherezade PROKOFIEV Ala et Lolly

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Sheherezade PROKOFIEV Ala et Lolly

Alejo Pérez | Jermolaj Albiker | Kirill Karabits | South West German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Baden-Baden and Freiburg

Hänssler

Different worlds entirely. Kirill Karabits’s Scythian Suite, although occasionally hampered by rather edgeless sound (ie the internal brass in ‘The...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2013

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