Dvorák: Orchestral Works

Hungarian State Orchestra | Miklos Szenthelyi | Pavel Urbanek | Prague Festival Orchestra | Tamás Pál

This budget From the New World is not so much launched into the Atlantic as almost scuppered in part by...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/1991

DVOŘÁK Serenade for Strings SUK Serenade HERBERT 3 Pieces

Metamorphosen Berlin | Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt

A year or two ago I watched a fascinating Supraphon documentary about the great Czech conductor Václav Talich who, towards...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2015

Dvorák Piano Trios

Florestan Trio

A favourite and appropriate pairing – Dvorak’s most passionate chamber work in harness with one of his most genial. The...

Reviewed in issue 1/1997

Dvorak String Quartets Op.106 & 96 'American'

The first point to make about this highly enjoyable new coupling concerns the range of dynamics on offer, principally in...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2010

Bailes, Tonadas & Cachuas (from Trujillo, Peru)

Adrian Rodriquez van der Spoel | Música Temprana

Three years ago I reviewed Hesperion XXI’s very enjoyable anthology of early Latin American music (‘El Nuevo Mundo’ – Alia...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2013

Borodin Symphony No 2; Rimsky-Korsakov Tale of Tsar Saltan-Suite

New Russian Orchestra | Oleg Poltevsky

It is a pity that the Rimsky-Korsakov Suite does not come first on the disc, to establish firmly the credentials...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/1997

Rhapsody

Charles Dutoit | Montreal Symphony Orchestra

Bringing together four popular favourites among nationalistic rhapsodies is a bright enough idea, but the masterstroke on this opulently recorded...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/1997

Dvorák: Orchestral Works

Mariss Jansons | Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra

It is good to find this delectable work, long neglected, being effectively brought into the regular canon, with two more...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/1990

SCRIABIN Preludes (Dmitri Alexeev; Matthieu Idmtal)

Dmitri Alexeev | Matthieu Idmtal

The Russian piano prelude owes almost as much to Scriabin as it does to Rachmaninov: numerically speaking, in fact, even...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 03/2019

Igor Markevitch

Carlo Maria Giulini | Guido Cantelli | Hallé Orchestra | Herbert von Karajan | Igor Markevitch | Igor Stravinsky | John Barbirolli | Milan La Scala Orchestra | New Philharmonia Orchestra | Orchestre de Paris

Much the most moving item in this wide-ranging historic collection is one that, curiously, is not even listed on the...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/2003