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Dvorák String Quartets, Opp. 105 & 106
Dvo·ák’s last two quartets‚ finished within a week or two of one another after his return from America‚ make a...
Reviewed in issue 9/2001
Glinka Orchestral Works including A Life for the Tsar Overture & Suite
Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra | Loris Tjeknavorian
Glinka left disappointingly little purely orchestral music, and almost everything performable is here. To these captivating pieces, which should be...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 7/2000
DVORÁK String Quartets Nos 8 & 10 (Albion Quartet)
What a gorgeous disc! True, it’d be a poor sort of string quartet who couldn’t make your heart melt with...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2020
Prokofiev Piano Concertos
(Royal) Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam | Boris Berman | Neeme Järvi
Boris Berman starts with the inestimable advantages of the Royal Concertgebouw's accompaniments and Chandos's engineering. In the First Concerto I'm...
Reviewed in issue 10/1990
Josef Špaček plays Smetana, Janáček & Prokofiev
Jozef Spacek | Miroslav Sekera
Prokofiev’s remarkable F minor Violin Sonata cannot but dominate this well-arranged recital and is rightly placed last. Though there will...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: AW2013
Brahms Concertos for Piano No 1, 2 & 3
‘Two CDs for the price of one’ proclaims the sleeve of these live and seismic experiences, but they would be...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/2001
Bernstein/Gershwin Orchestral Works
Edo de Waart | Garrick Ohlsson | Minnesota Orchestra
In attempting to clean up Bernstein's lower West Side, Edo de Waart has come hopelessly unstuck. There isn't much of...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 5/1991
Prokofiev Piano Works
Amid the sterile academicism and inflated emotionality which formed the two poles of pre-First World War Russian piano music, Prokofiev's...
Reviewed in issue 10/1989
Dvorák Symphonies Nos 3 and 6
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra | Stephen Gunzenhauser
These are all modern digital recordings made in the Reduta Concert Hall in Bratislava in 1989. They are part of...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 11/1991
DVORÁK; MANSURIAN; MARTIN Piano Trios (Delta Piano Trio)
Previous releases of Taneyev and Borodin (Naxos) and Shostakovich and Auerbach (Odradek) left little doubt as to the Delta Trio’s...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2022
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