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Gluck Orphée et Eurydice
This latest version of Gluck’s masterpiece is something of a double hybrid: its starting point is the Berlioz version, which...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 7/1996
Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet
Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra | Dmitri Kitaenko
Act 1 brings relatively few surprises. Kitaienko directs efficiently enough, the orchestral playing is mostly excellent, though the Danish strings...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 4/1995
Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet - Highlights
(Royal) Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam | Myung-Whun Chung
I'll get my only real bugbear out of the way first. Myung-Whun Chung's selection offers us Prokofiev's first two suites...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/1994
Russian Music for String Duo
Eleonora Turovsky | Yuli Turovsky
Perhaps not surprisingly, the arrangements here come off less well than the originals. Oistrakh's version of Prokofiev's Sonata for two...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 7/1989
Hamelin plays Grainger
Just when you think that you have heard all of Marc-Andre Hamelin’s very considerable interpretative and pianistic faculties, along he...
Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 1/1997
Smetana Má vlast
Colin Davis | London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Colin Davis has long been noted as an interpreter of Czech music but this is his first recording of...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/2005
PROKOFIEV Complete Piano Sonatas (Dinara Klinton)
Hearing the Prokofiev sonatas in chronological order is always a fascinating exercise, as the enthusiastically embraced Scriabin influences of No...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 05/2021
Vincent Lardaret: The Scriabin Mystery
Vincent Larderet enters the Scriabin 150th-birthday sweepstakes with a judicious overview of works spanning the composer’s creative lifespan. Expansive and...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2022
Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet
Kirov Opera Orchestra | Valery Gergiev
Prokofiev's great ballet score has been very lucky on records. Both Previn's EMI set (at present awaiting reissue) and the...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/1991
Clarinet Kaleidoscope – British Composer Series
Gavin Sutherland | Verity Butler
I suppose it’s clarinettists seeking something new and light-hearted and others with a special fondness for the instrument, who will...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 7/2004
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