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Ivan Ilić: The Transcendentalist
At a time when virtually everything is available on CD, many pianists search for something both different and enlightening. For...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 09/2014
Dvorák & Sarasate Violin Works
Akiko Suwanai | Budapest Festival Orchestra
No one could doubt the virtuoso flair of Akiko Suwanai the moment she starts playing Sarasate’s Zigeunerweisen. This is just...
Reviewed in issue 5/2001
Dvorák Symphony 3; Scherzo capriccioso
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra | Václav Neumann
Edward Greenfield made comparisons in some depth between the Neumann and Kertesz readings of the early symphonies Dvorak symphonies when...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 1/1986
DVOŘÁK Symphony No 7 LUDWIG Violin Concerto (Bella Hristova)
Bella Hristova | Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra | JoAnn Falletta
Though there’s much ingratiating listening here, the Buffalo Philharmonic’s self-produced disc is most important as a calling card to show...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2024
Dvorák Chamber Works
Dvorak's Serenade for strings has been so often coupled with his similarly titled work for wind that when a group...
Reviewed in issue 9/1987
Dvorák Symphony No 8; (The) Noon Witch
(Royal) Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam | Nikolaus Harnoncourt
A more stimulating disc it would be hard to imagine. Right from the symphony's subtly textured outset (with trombones and...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/1999
Midori – 20th Anniversary Album
Leonard Slatkin | Miss Midori | Robert McDonald | St Louis Symphony Orchestra
It seems astonishing that Midori, only just in her thirties, has been before the public for 20 years. It was...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/2002
Falla (El) Sombrero de tres picos; Noches en los jardinesde España
Granada Chamber Orchestra | Granada City Orchestra | Itxaro Mentxaka | Josep Colom | Josep Pons
It is particularly fitting that the Granada Municipal Orchestra should record Nights in the gardens of Spain, since the first...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 9/1997
Stokowski's Wagner
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra | Matthias Bamert
As Edward Johnson’s excellent notes confirm in great detail, Stokowski preferred to play Wagner without intrusive overstressed voices. And there...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 6/1999
Gluck Iphigénie en Tauride
The praises of Gluck's Iphigenie en Tauride are sung a good deal more often than the opera itself. Written for...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 6/1986
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