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Rarities of Piano Music from the 2021 & 2022 Festivals at Schloss vor Husum
The annual album of piano rarities from the previous year’s eponymous festival in Husum is always cause for celebration. Dedicated...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2022
Gilels plays Beethoven
Cleveland Orchestra | Emil Gilels | George Szell | Leopold Ludwig | Philharmonia Orchestra
Poet and virtuoso in more or less equal proportions, Emil Gilels was one of the century’s greatest Beethoven interpreters. His...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 4/1997
Reminding
Matthew Barley | Stephen De Pledge
Matthew Barley has chosen works by composers who usually present a stern face and, despite the inclusion of a piece...
Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 3/2006
MYASKOVSKY Symphony No 27 PROKOFIEV Symphony No 6 (Petrenko)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra | Vasily Petrenko
This last of Vasily Petrenko’s discs as chief conductor of the Oslo Philharmonic finds the team on something like top...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 08/2021
Gershwin Orchestral Works
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra | Howard Shelley | Yan Pascal Tortelier
Tortelier, the Frenchman in New York, and Shelley, the Englishman abroad, surprised me with their first Gershwin package (3/93). I...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 4/1995
Tavener (The) Repentant Thief
Shortly after they gave the first performance of The Repentant Thief in September 1991, Andrew Marriner, the LSO and Michael...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 7/2008
Lutoslawski Orchestral Works
Dawn Upshaw | Esa-Pekka Salonen | Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra | Paul Crossley
It is Lutoslawski’s last completed work, the Fourth Symphony (1993), which most fully embodies his highly personal reinterpretation of Polish...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 6/1996
RAVEL; PROKOFIEV; STRAUSS Violin Sonatas
Boris Kusnezow | Tobias Feldmann
Tobias Feldmann and Boris Kusnezow make their debut on Alpha with this unusually titled disc which, the 25-year-old German violinist...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2017
Prokofiev (The) Symphonies
Cologne Gürzenich Orchestra | Dmitrji Kitajenko | Neeme Järvi | Royal Scottish National Orchestra
While Shostakovich’s symphonies are core repertoire nowadays, Prokofiev’s symphonic output has been less fortunate. This may be changing. Even the...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2008
R. Strauss A cappella choral works
Under Stefan Parkman the Danish National Radio Choir have established a reputation second to none. It is not just their...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 5/1994
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