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Piggott Piano Works
It couldn’t be claimed that Patrick Piggott (1915-90) was a composer with a strong urge to innovate: he cultivated a...
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 6/2005
Great European Organs, Volume 59
This generously filled disc showcases the 1988 Van den Heuvel organ, a magnificent instrument of 8000 pipes spread over five...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 7/2000
Tchaikovsky Orchestral Works
With both these new issues of Tchaikovsky's Fourth the fill-ups, valuable and unexpected, are a prime consideration, particularly in relation...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/1991
Scriabin Symphony No 2; Rêverie
Neeme Järvi | Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Scriabin's Second Symphony is a rather less satisfying work, so it seems to me, than its predecessor. True, there is...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 10/1986
SCRIABIN The Poem of Ecstasy. Symphony No 2 (Falletta)
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra | JoAnn Falletta
It doesn’t at all surprise me that Scriabin once thought of calling his Poem of Ecstasy ‘Poème orgiaque’ or ‘Orgiastic...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 04/2023
Rimsky-Korsakov Piano Concerto; Tchaikovsky Symphony No 3
Gilbert Levine | Jeffrey Campbell | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
This unexpected and in some ways incongruous coupling is defended by the conductor on the grounds of stylistic diversity and...
Reviewed in issue 10/1997
SVIRIDOV Russia Cast Adrift
Constantine Orbelian | Dmitri Hvorostovsky | St Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra | Style of Five
This recording presents an orchestration of Sviridov’s song-cycle on verses by Yesenin, Russia Cast Adrift (which Hvorostovsky has already recorded...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 09/2017
Scriabin Piano Sonatas
Another important issue in the on-going cycle which will eventually embrace the complete Holmboe symphonic canon. Both the First Symphony...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 5/1990
Cyril Smith: Complete Solo Recordings
As APR’s note says, we tend to remember Cyril Smith (1909 74) as the pianist who overcame a stroke in...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2021
Classic Kennedy
Kennedy | English Chamber Orchestra
Kennedy is a people's violinist to contrast with say, Heifetz, or Kreisler or David Oistrakh, all of whom were 'violinists'...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/1999
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