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Brahms Symphony No 3; Alto Rhapsody
The sessions for the Ashkenazy disc were held in Cleveland's Severance Hall in 1991, with Decca's producer at the time,...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 6/1994
Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade
Kirov Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre | Valery Gergiev
Recorded under live conditions but without an audience in St Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theatre, this Scheherazade is the most red-blooded, exciting...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/2002
Strauss Salome
Charles Mackerras | Philharmonia Orchestra
The old jibe about the need for surtitles being felt most acutely when the opera is sung in English cannot...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 1/2009
Smetana Piano Trio
It’s not every CD that has grief, misery and death as its theme, but then some of Western music’s finest...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 3/2011
Chamber Orchestral Works
Barry Wilde | Serenata of London
Serenata of London is a first-class chamber group offering refined, sensitive string playing, with just the right degree of warmth...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/1995
Dvorák Symphony No 9
Colin Davis | London Symphony Orchestra
The most comforting news about these two CDs is that there's nothing special to report save for wonderful music, fine...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 4/2000
MUSSORGSKY Pictures from an Exhibition PROKOFIEV Sarcasms. Visions Fugitives
After his disc of Rachmaninov’s 24 Preludes (6/09), Steven Osborne moves into rougher Russian waters with Mussorgsky and Prokofiev. And...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 03/2013
Sviatoslav Richter Piano Recital
Two surpassingly great performances here—the Scriabin and Prokofiev sonatas—some delight fully crisp Visions fugitives, and some excessively literal, though still...
Reviewed in issue 9/1988
Jascha Heifetz - Studio Takes
For almost all his career Heifetz recorded for Victor and RCA. From 1942, however, the American recording industry was in...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 11/2006
SHOSTAKOVICH Michelangelo Poems LISZT Petraca Sonnets
Dmitri Hvorostovsky | Ivari Ilja
Dmitri Hvorostovsky has always been just as comfortable on the recital platform as on the operatic stage, a state of...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2015
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