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Scriabin: Complete Piano Sonatas
These are two well-filled medium-price discs from an undoubted master-pianist playing very much on home ground. How can it be...
Reviewed in issue 1/1990
Scriabin: Orchestral Works
Individually these performances have all been highly regarded, and their recoupling, in vivid remastered sound, can accordingly be recommended with...
Reviewed in issue 4/1989
James Ehnes - Romantic Pieces
The Canadian violinist James Ehnes has made a number of outstanding recordings, mainly for the Canadian company Analekta, all of...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/2004
Russian Spectacular
Hallé Orchestra | Vernon Handley
A generous and attractive compilation of Russian orchestral fireworks, quite spectacularly recorded in Manchester's Free Trade Hall—not an easy venue,...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 3/1989
Homage to Diaghilev
Igor Markevitch | Philharmonia Orchestra
The current revival of interest in the music of Igor Markevitch has been accompanied by a welcome, if oddly planned,...
Reviewed in issue 12/1997
Prokofiev Choral & Orchestral Works
Two recordings of Alexander Nevsky come from Decca, one a reissue, but both offering very fine sound; indeed I am...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/1992
DVOŘÁK Symphony No 7. Othello Overture. The Wild Dove
Claus Peter Flor | London Symphony Orchestra | Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra | Pierre Monteux
The art of Claus Peter Flor appears to have matured greatly with the passing of time. I can recall interviewing...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2012
DVOŘÁK Stabat Mater
The Stabat mater – a 13th-century poem that describes in 20 verses the imagined sufferings of the Virgin Mary at...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 07/2013
Theodorakis Rhapsodies
Franz Halász | John Carewe | Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra | Sebastian Hess
There can be no doubting the cultural significance of Mikis Theodorakis in post-war Greece. Although, like his older contemporary Xenakis,...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 13/2007
Liszt Piano Concertos, etc
As a teenager in the 1940s, Byron Janis studied with Horowitz for three years and has a sure technique and...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 9/1991
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