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Review of Dvorák: Orchestral works

Dvorák: Orchestral works

Antál Dorati | Detroit Symphony Orchestra

When the equivalent LP arrived in 1981 it had the field almost to itself, with only the Nocturne otherwise available....

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 7/1986

Review of Dvorák Violin Concerto; Piano Trio Op 65

Dvorák Violin Concerto; Piano Trio Op 65

Alexander Melnikov | Isabelle Faust | Jean-Guihen Queyras | Jirí Belohlávek | Prague Philharmonia

Harmonia Mundi

This is not the first disc to couple Dvorák’s lone violin concerto with one of his chamber works. Sarah Chang’s...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/2004

Review of Dvorák Symphony No 2; Slavonic Rhapsody

Dvorák Symphony No 2; Slavonic Rhapsody

Neeme Järvi | Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Chandos

Jarvi directs a characteristically warm and urgent performance of this exuberant inspiration of the 24-year-old composer. It is by far...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/1988

Review of DVOŘÁK Cello Concerto

DVOŘÁK Cello Concerto

Alisa Weilerstein | Anna Polonsky | Czech Philharmonic Orchestra | Jirí Belohlávek

Decca

How disarmingly unforced and personable the Czech Philharmonic sound in the Concerto’s introduction, Jiří Bĕlohlávek providing a quietly authoritative, glowingly...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 07/2014

Review of DVOŘÁK Cello Concerto. Piano Trio No 4

DVOŘÁK Cello Concerto. Piano Trio No 4

German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern | Lisa Batiashvili | Milana Chernyavska | Sebastian Klinger | Simon Gaudenz

Oehms

Sebastian Klinger – first solo cellist of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra – has already committed several chamber and instrumental...

Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 11/2015

Review of On the Banks of Green Willow

On the Banks of Green Willow

Adrian Boult | London Philharmonic Orchestra

Belart

This disc offers an hour’s worth of Boult at his unassailable best. I don’t know of a finer Tintagel, a...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 9/1997

Review of Prokofiev Piano Concertos Nos 1 - 5

Prokofiev Piano Concertos Nos 1 - 5

Niklas Willén | Oleg Marshev | South Jutland Symphony Orchestra

Danacord

Azerbaijan-born Oleg Marshev has been cutting swathes through the Russian repertoire for Danacord in the past decade or so, producing...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 12/2005

Review of Glazunov Symphonies Nos 1-3 and 9

Glazunov Symphonies Nos 1-3 and 9

José Serebrier | Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Warner Classics

The three-and-a-bit works collected here are in many ways the weaker brethren in Glazunov’s symphonic oeuvre. His debut as a...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 12/2009

Review of Anna Netrebko - Souvenirs

Anna Netrebko - Souvenirs

Anna Netrebko | Elina Garanca | Emmanuel Villaume | Piotr Beczala | Prague Philharmonia | Prague Philharmonic Choir

Deutsche Grammophon

Something for everybody here. Netrebko is nothing if not adventurous in her choice of “lollipops”, and sings in nine languages....

Reviewed by po'connor in issue: 12/2008

Review of DVOŘÁK Symphony No 9 'From the New World' (Nelsons)

DVOŘÁK Symphony No 9 'From the New World' (Nelsons)

Andris Nelsons | Kristine Opolais | Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra

Accentus

This concert was recorded in May 2017, following the announcement that Andris Nelsons would succeed Riccardo Chailly as music director...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2018

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