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Kubelik conducts Czech Orchestral Showpieces
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra | Philharmonia Orchestra | Rafael Kubelík
Caught in a blissful vacuum between two totalitarian regimes, Prague in the late 1940s enjoyed a brief spell of democracy....
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 3/2001
Vine Symphonies Nos 1 - 6
While he may be less a born symphonist than having had symphonism thrust upon him, Carl Vine made a sizeable...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 4/2006
Lang Lang: Saint-Saëns
Andris Nelsons | Gina Alice | Lang Lang | Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
For The Carnival, Lang Lang is joined by his pianist wife Gina Alice. It begins splendidly with the lion loudly...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2024
Karlowicz Stanislaw & Anna; Eternal Songs; Lithuanian Rhapsody
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra | Yan Pascal Tortelier
What a fine composer Mieczys1aw Kar1owicz might have become‚ had he not died at the age of 32 in an...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 10/2002
WHITLOCK Organ Sonata
You may think that Percy Whitlock might not have been the most likely composer to produce a successful organ solo...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 09/2014
Jorge Bolet: Berlin Radio Recordings, Vol 3
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra | Jorge Bolet | Moshe Atzmon
According to Audite’s booklet, this is the final volume of Bolet’s (West) Berlin recordings made between 1961 and 1974. The...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2019
The Romantic Piano Concerto, Vol. 5
David Lloyd-Jones | English Northern Philharmonia | Malcolm Binns
'Op. 1' and 'Op. posth.' says a lot about Balakirev's two piano concertos. The First is a single movement only,...
Reviewed in issue 7/1993
DVOŘÁK; SUK; JANÁČEK Violin Concertos
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra | Jirí Belohlávek | Josef Špaček
Regarding Dvořák’s Concerto, the obvious first-stop comparison is with Frank Peter Zimmermann’s 2013 recording, also with the Czech Philharmonic under...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2015
Bruckner Symphony 7
Nikolaus Harnoncourt | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Listening to Nikolaus Harnoncourt's lyrical, finely nuanced reading of the first movement of the Seventh Symphony, I was reminded of...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 1/2000
Dvorák: Complete Symphonies
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra | Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Rafael Kubelík
During the analogue LP era Rafael Kubelik's highly distinguished LP set of the symphonies Dvorak symphonies tended to lie in...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/1988
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