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Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition
Cleveland Orchestra | Oliver Knussen
It might seem a curious decision for Leopold Stokowski to orchestrate Mussorgsky’s Pictures when Ravel’s 1922 version had such flair...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/2004
DVOŘÁK Piano Quintet No 2. String Quintet Op 97
Boris Giltburg | Pavel Haas Quartet | Pavel Nikl
Just a month after the Takács and Laurence Power impressed with their Dvořák Op 97 Quintet comes this one from the...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2017
Cinema Choral Classics II
A heavenly choir has long been recognized as a reliable, if somewhat cliched, device for milking the emotional response of...
Reviewed by rseeley in issue: 9/1998
Dvorák: Symphonies
Hallé Orchestra | John Barbirolli
It's good news that EMI have taken over the old Pye/Nixa catalogue and here is the first evidence of that...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/1991
Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto, etc
Tchaikovsky's Concert Fantasia brims over with good ideas, with the atmosphere of Russian ballet and sleigh-rides, and with structural initiative...
Reviewed in issue 1/1990
A.Previn Piano & Guitar Concerto
André Previn | Eduardo Fernández | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Vladimir Ashkenazy
I wrote elsewhere of the debut recording on CBS (nla) of Previn's Guitar Concerto by John Williams and was, I...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 4/1990
Dvorák/Elgar Sacred Choral Works
If this recording does little to enhance the Dyfed Choir's reputation, it is hardly their fault or that of Christopher...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 7/1994
Gluck Iphigénie en Aulide
Iphigenie en Aulide was the opera with which the mature Gluck made his Paris debut, in 1774, and though flawed...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 6/1990
Michelangeli - The Early Recordings Vol 3
Alceo Galliera | Antonio Pedrotti | Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli | Milan La Scala Orchestra
Michelangeli remains an ultimate musical enigma. One minute stiff and unyielding – a veritable Prussian officer of the keyboard (much...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 05/2013
Thomas Dausgaard conducts Brahms, Dvorak, Nielsen, Sibelius
Danish National Symphony Orchestra | Thomas Dausgaard
Flying down from the gods to the stage in Copenhagen’s handsome Concert Hall is akin to a Harry Potter experience....
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2012
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