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Review of Bartók: Orchestral Works

Bartók: Orchestral Works

Budapest Festival Orchestra

Hungaroton

I wonder if Ivan Fischer has heard his brother Adam's account of the Concerto for Orchestra (Nimbus), or vice versa?...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 3/1991

Review of Monteux conducts Tchaikovsky at the Vienna Festival

Monteux conducts Tchaikovsky at the Vienna Festival

John Ogdon | London Symphony Orchestra | Pierre Monteux

Classics

This all-Tchaikovsky Vienna Festival concert here receives its first ever issue three decades after the event (the tapes had apparently...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/1995

Review of Donizetti Pia de' Tolomei

Donizetti Pia de' Tolomei

Andrew Schroeder | Bruce Ford | Clara Polito | Dario Schmunck | David Parry | Geoffrey Mitchell Choir | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Majella Cullagh | Paolo Arrivabeni | Patrizia Biccire

Dynamic

Pia de’ Tolomei is the unhappy lady in Dante who, made in Siena, was unmade in Maremma (‘Siena mi fe,...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/2005

Review of Lou Preager Cruising Down the River

Lou Preager Cruising Down the River

Vocalion

Through the 1930s English dance music developed a unique and characteristic flavour. Well-mannered, light and unobtrusive, it was perfectly adapted...

Reviewed in issue 3/1998

Review of Elgar Orchestral Works

Elgar Orchestral Works

Charles Groves | Noel Rawsthorne | Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Studio

This collection is a logical pendant to the reissue of Sir Adrian Boult's late EMI Elgar recordings, for just at...

Reviewed in issue 3/1990

Review of Britten Billy Budd

Britten Billy Budd

Andrew Burden | Anthony Rolfe Johnson | Ashley Holland | Christopher Gillett | Christopher Maltman | Eric Halfvarson | Gidon Saks | Hallé Choir | Hallé Orchestra | Kent Nagano

Erato

This is an exciting achievement. Based on concert performances given in Manchester last year, it restores to circulation the original,...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1998

Review of Shostakovich Symphony No 4, arranged for 2 pianos

Shostakovich Symphony No 4, arranged for 2 pianos

Colin Stone | Rustem Hayroudinoff

Chandos

Although recording has long replaced the need for piano reductions (whether two- or four-hand) to get to know orchestral works,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 7/2005

Review of Stravinsky Piano Works

Stravinsky Piano Works

Peter Hill

Naxos

This is about as attractive a programme for a single CD of Stravinsky’s music as could be devised. The inclusion...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: /2000

Review of Legendary Voices

Legendary Voices

(Anonymous) Orchestra | Alexander Kipnis | Alfred Piccaver | Bavarian State Orchestra | Berlin State Opera Orchestra | Bruno Walter | Enrico Caruso | Erich Orthmann | Eva Turner | Ezio Pinza

Prima Voce

Nigel Douglas's book Legendary Voices (Deutsch: 1992) gives engagingly appreciative accounts of 14 favourite singers, coupling a biographical sketch, and...

Reviewed in issue 12/1993

Review of Brahms Piano Sonata No 3

Brahms Piano Sonata No 3

Evgeny Kissin

Red Seal

Having expressed some serious reservations about Kissin’s past three RCA discs, while marvelling at his often prodigious command, I find...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2003

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