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Review of SCRIABIN 'Visionary and Poet' (Daniela Roma)

SCRIABIN 'Visionary and Poet' (Daniela Roma)

Daniela Roma

Dynamic

If not a debut, this release introduces Daniela Roma to a wider listenership with its judicious overview of Scriabin’s 1890s...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2023

Review of Neuhaus plays Scriabin

Neuhaus plays Scriabin

Heinrich Neuhaus | Moscow All-Union Radio Symphony Orchestra | Nikolai Golovanov

Russian Disc

After teaching in Tiflis and Kiev, Heinrich Neuhaus, a pupil of the great Godowsky, became famous as a professor for...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 8/1994

Review of PROKOFIEV Piano Concertos (Stewart Goodyear. Zlata Chochieva)

PROKOFIEV Piano Concertos (Stewart Goodyear. Zlata Chochieva)

Andrew Litton | BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra | BBC Symphony Orchestra | Karl-Heinz Steffens | Zlata Chochieva

Orchid Classics

Prokofiev’s Second Piano Concerto sits uneasily between lush Romanticism and abrasive modernism. When he was still a daring young pianist-composer...

Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 11/2024

Review of Glinka; Tchaikovsky Piano Trios

Glinka; Tchaikovsky Piano Trios

Moscow Rachmaninov Trio (The)

Hyperion

In a market that boasts a rival as dashing as the Erato disc listed above‚ any performance of the Tchaikovsky...

Reviewed in issue 11/2001

Review of Dvorák Piano Concerto; (The) Golden Spinning Wheel

Dvorák Piano Concerto; (The) Golden Spinning Wheel

(Royal) Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam | Nikolaus Harnoncourt | Pierre-Laurent Aimard

Warner Classics

Straight to the top of the list for this one! Even on its best showings – Richter and Carlos Kleiber,...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 1/2004

Review of Grieg Historic Recordings

Grieg Historic Recordings

(Anonymous) Orchestra | Amelita Galli-Curci | Arthur Rubinstein | Birgit Nilsson | Boston Symphony Orchestra | Budapest Qt | Celius Dougherty | Claude Gotthelf | Coenraad Van Bos | Edwin McArthur

Gold Seal

Simax have followed their three-CD set of historic interpretations of Grieg's piano music (9/93) with a similar one devoted to...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 4/1994

Review of Brahms/Dvorák Orchestral Works

Brahms/Dvorák Orchestral Works

Czech Philharmonic Orchestra | Gerd Albrecht

Supraphon

Gerd Albrecht is the first non-Czech to be appointed Principal Conductor of the Czech Philharmonic. With this post comes an...

Reviewed in issue 6/1993

Review of DVOŘÁK; BRAHMS Piano Trios

DVOŘÁK; BRAHMS Piano Trios

Z.E.N. Trio

Deutsche Grammophon

The ZEN Trio play this pair of warhorses with the technical assurance, musical conviction and stylistic unanimity of an ensemble...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2018

Review of DVOŘÁK; SMETANA Piano Trios

DVOŘÁK; SMETANA Piano Trios

Dvorák Trio

Supraphon

These young musicians’ performances show that the centuries-old Czech tradition of superb instrumental playing is still flourishing. I particularly enjoyed...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 03/2014

Review of Brahms/Dvorák Piano Trios

Brahms/Dvorák Piano Trios

Rembrandt Trio

Dorian

The pianist, Valerie Tryon, was of course well-known to English audiences before her emigration in 1971 to Canada, where she...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 6/1992

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