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Dvorák/Suk Orchestral Works
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra | Václav Talich
It is ironic that Czechoslovakia's repressive post-war Communist regime should have endowed two special qualities on Talich's late recordings. Owing...
Reviewed in issue 2/1994
DVOŘÁK Piano Quintet. Piano Quartet
Performers of Dvořák, especially his large-scale forms, seem to face more pressing questions of tempo than when playing other ‘standard’...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2013
DVOŘÁK Violin Concerto. Romance
Czech National Symphony Orchestra | James Judd | Jan Mrácek | Lukás Klánsky
Reviewing Christian Tetzlaff’s recording of the Concerto with the Helsinki Philharmonic under John Storgårds I made reference to ‘an exceptionally...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2016
Scriabin Piano Sonatas
Sofronitzki died in 1961 at the age of 60, leaving a great reputation as a performer of the works of...
Reviewed in issue 11/1985
Zlata Chochieva: Chiaroscuro - Piano Works by Mozart & Scriabin
Zlata Chochieva, whose beautiful sound at the piano is of a silvery, crystalline clarity, has chosen to juxtapose Mozart and...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 07/2022
Chopin Piano Sonatas Nos 2 & 3
This is a disc that takes you by stealth. Not simply because it opens almost unassumingly, with a finely wrought...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 2/2009
PROKOFIEV Symphonies Nos 1 & 2. Sinfonietta
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra | Kirill Karabits
This is the second release in Kirill Karabits’s Prokofiev symphony cycle, opening with the modernistic Second (1924 25) in a...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 01/2015
BRAHMS Symphony No 3 DVOŘÁK Symphony No 8 (Hrůša)
Bamberg Symphony Orchestra | Jakub Hrusa
I wasn’t all that enthused by the initial instalment in this series, a pairing of Brahms’s Fourth and Dvořák’s Ninth...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2019
Dvorák Symphony 9 etc
Claudio Abbado’s high-scoring Berlin Phil New World was big on drama and instrumental ‘class’, but Harnoncourt in particular has so...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 7/2000
MOSZKOWSKI Orchestral works Vol 2 (Hobson)
Damian Skowroński | Jakub Haufa | Sinfonia Varsovia | Zuzanna Elster
Moszkowski is best known for his myriad short piano pieces. Great pianists of the past from Rachmaninov to Horowitz had...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2020
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