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Review of DAN The Silk Road BUSONI Turnadot Suite

DAN The Silk Road BUSONI Turnadot Suite

Argovia Philharmonic | Douglas Bostock

Coviello

The booklet essay outlines a programme to each work which might not be readily appreciable from the performances. The meeting...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 04/2015

Review of SMETANA Piano Trio DVOŘÁK Piano Trio Op 90

SMETANA Piano Trio DVOŘÁK Piano Trio Op 90

Benaud Trio

Melba Recordings

Smetana’s engaging three-movement Piano Trio opens with a lyrical cello solo, finely played here, but almost immediately becomes passionately stormy...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/2013

Review of Dvorák Complete Piano Trios, Vol 1

Dvorák Complete Piano Trios, Vol 1

Vienna Piano Trio

Gold

Dvorák’s piano trios divide clearly into two groups. Nos 1 and 2, from 1875-76, belong to a stage when the...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 11/2004

Review of DVOŘÁK Piano Quintets. Bagatelles

DVOŘÁK Piano Quintets. Bagatelles

Busch Trio | Maria Milstein | Miguel da Silva

Alpha

A few months back I was enjoying the Busch Trio’s Dvořák piano quartets in the company of viola player Miguel...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 09/2018

Review of Parlour Pieces Vol 1

Parlour Pieces Vol 1

Harvey Dagul | Isabel Beyer

Four Hands Music

I had little idea what to expect from this record, with the names of neither the performers nor some of...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 1/1985

Review of Sibelius Essential Classics

Sibelius Essential Classics

Boston Symphony Orchestra | Colin Davis | Eugene Ormandy | Philadelphia Orchestra

Essential Classics

Two eminently serviceable readings of the Second Symphony to join the 30 or more already in the catalogue. Both are...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 9/1994

Review of Rostropovich as Conductor III

Rostropovich as Conductor III

Academy of St Martin in the Fields | Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Carlo Maria Giulini | Cleveland Orchestra | David Oistrakh | French National Orchestra | Galina Vishnevskaya | George Szell | Herbert von Karajan | Leonard Bernstein

EMI

Cellist, pianist, conductor and communicator par excellence, Mstislav (‘Slava’) Rostropovich remains a powerful presence on the international music scene. And...

Reviewed in issue 9/1996

Review of Dvorák Symphony No 7; Golden Spinning Wheel

Dvorák Symphony No 7; Golden Spinning Wheel

Christoph von Dohnányi | Cleveland Orchestra | Neeme Järvi | Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Chandos

Christoph von Dohnanyi and his splendid Cleveland Orchestra have already given us well priased recordings of Dvorak's Eighth Symphony (414...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 3/1987

Review of DVORÁK The Late Symphonies (Bernard)

DVORÁK The Late Symphonies (Bernard)

David Bernard | Park Avenue Chamber Symphony

Recursive

Dvořák’s symphonies are well represented in the recording catalogue, with multiple performances – especially of the late symphonies – featuring...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 10/2021

Review of Dvorák Symphony 9; Carnival

Dvorák Symphony 9; Carnival

(Royal) Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam | Riccardo Chailly

When Decca have made quite a corner in outstanding versions of this much-recorded symphony, it was only natural to give...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 9/1988

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