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DVOŘÁK Cello Concerto. Symphony No 9
Antonio Pappano | Mario Brunello | Santa Cecilia Academy Orchestra, Rome
This was my first encounter with the Italian cellist Mario Brunello. A pupil of Antonio Janigro and joint winner of...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: AW/2012
Dvorák/Tchaikovsky String Serenades
John Lubbock | St John's Smith Square Orchestra
Of these serenades the Tchaikovsky needs no description: a favourite both of string players and listeners for just over a...
Reviewed in issue 3/1986
MOERAN Sketches. Oveture for a Festival IRELAND Sarnia
Martin Yates | Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Ernest John (‘Jack’) Moeran laboured over his never-to-be-finished Second Symphony for some 11 years until his death in Kenmare, County...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2012
FEINBERG Piano Sonatas Nos 1-6 (Marc-André Hamelin)
What happened to the great Russian composer-pianist tradition in the decades after the death of Scriabin and the emigration of...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 04/2020
Dvorák & Bartók Cello Concertos
Both of these new versions of the Dvorak Cello Concerto have their individual strengths, but their principal claims for priority...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1992
Prokofiev Orchestral Works
Neeme Järvi | Royal Scottish National Orchestra
The Divertimento is a rarity which has not been available in the UK since Hans Swoboda's now deleted mono LP...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 3/1990
Dvorák; Suk Orchestral Works
Jakub Hrusa | Prague Philharmonia
Still in his mid-twenties, Jakub Hrusa is a conductor to look out for. A pupil of Jirí Belohlávek, he has...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/2007
DVOŘÁK; GIDDENS; PRICE String Quartets 'But Not My Soul'
Florence Price’s Second Quartet (1935) may not, quite, reach the level of Dvořák’s celebrated American Quartet but it is a...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2024
Svetlanov Orchestral Works
Evgeni Svetlanov | USSR Symphony Orchestra
Writer, musician and provocateur Hans Keller regarded conducting as a phoney profession alongside opera producing and professional viola playing. Even...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 7/2010
Rimsky-Korsakov Orchestral Music
Bystrík Rezucha | Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra
An interesting if not indispensable addition to the Rimsky-Korsakov discography. Night on Mount Triglav is compiled from the Third Act...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 11/1987
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