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Nostalgic Russia
Hideko Udagawa’s second contribution to Northern Flowers’ ‘St Petersburg Musical Archive’ series is a similar compilation of shorter collections and...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2021
Borodin Orchestral Works
With its wealth of striking and richly melodic themes and its original dramatic structure, Borodin's Second Symphony should by rights...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/1994
Bohemia Express
According to the booklet notes, the St George Quintet had the idea for this disc while riding the appropriately named...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2019
Dvorák String Quartet No 14; Janácek String Quartet No 1
The real prize here is the Terzetto for two violins and viola, a minor masterpiece that Dvorák wrote for himself...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 7/2006
DVOŘÁK Symphony No 6 JANÁČEK Idyll
Gerard Schwarz | Seattle Symphony Orchestra
As with José Serebrier’s and Marin Alsop’s versions of the Sixth Symphony, Gerard Schwarz observes the important first-movement exposition repeat....
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2013
Gluck Orfeo
Not very long ago, the standard view of Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice was that a compromise text, between the Italian...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 1/1990
Borodin Chamber Works
Borodin Quartet | Lev Oborin | Mikhail Voskresensky | Vladimir Sofronitzky
Borodin is probably known to most music-lovers as a chamber composer only for the popular Notturno from the Second String...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 3/1986
Shostakovich Symphony No 6; The Execution of Stepan Razin
As is so often the case with Polyansky’s contining Shostakovich series‚ the main interest of this release lies in its...
Reviewed in issue 3/2002
Dvorák; Tchaikovsky Violin Concertos
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra | Jirí Belohlávek | Vladimir Ashkenazy
Strangely, the Dvorák and Tchaikovsky violin concertos – written within a year of each other – have rarely been coupled...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/2004
ELGAR Falstaff. Froissart
Andrew Davis | BBC Symphony Orchestra | Graham Sheen
As digital Falstaffs go, Sir Andrew Davis’s all-too-swiftly deleted 1995 account with the BBC SO remains arguably the front-runner. If...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 8/2005
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