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The Virtuoso Liszt
Helmerson is a Swedish cellist of the middle generation, born in 1945, who was acclaimed in London some ten years...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1986
Christoff sings Russian Arias & Songs
Christoff's early recordings date from 1949 and are already those of a mature artist. At the age of 35, his...
Reviewed in issue 6/1993
Lang Lang: The Disney Book
Andrea Bocelli | Gina Alice | Guo Gan | Jon Batiste | Lang Lang | Milos Karadaglic | Sebastián Yatra
Once upon a time in a distant land many years ago, a small boy was given a piano by his...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW22
Arensky Piano Concerto
Dmitry Yablonsky | Konstantin Scherbakov | Russian Philharmonic Orchestra
Arensky’s Piano Concerto has never enjoyed a particularly good press, and given its near-plagiaristic closeness to Liszt and Chopin it...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 7/2009
ORFF Carmina Burana - Live from the Forbidden City
DG celebrates its 120th anniversary by signing another ensemble and conductor from the East who have been developing increasing links...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 04/2019
Roussel Symphony No 2; Bacchus et Ariane
Christoph Eschenbach | Orchestre de Paris
The familiar exuberant Roussel style, a synthesis of Busoni-esque Young Classicality and impressionism heard here in the two suites from...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 9/2006
Mussorgsky Sorochinsky Fair; Borodin Petite Suite
Sorochintsy Fair is Mussorgsky's last opera, or rather it would have been if he hadn't drunk himself to death before...
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 12/1988
Prokofiev Orchestral Works
Neeme Järvi | Philharmonia Orchestra
Here is a very well-planned record of less familiar but vintage orchestral Prokofiev that provides a highly stimulating appendix to...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 3/1993
British Film Composers in Concert
Gavin Sutherland | Royal Ballet Sinfonia
If a sub-theme emerges from this delightful addition to ASV’s White Line series of British film music it is surely...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 12/2003
Violin Works
Pinchas Zukerman | Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
Soloing and conducting (or anyway being responsible for) the accompaniment at the same time is difficult; but you would not...
Reviewed in issue 11/1987
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