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Glinka Orchestral Works
Evgeni Svetlanov | USSR Symphony Orchestra
Glinka gets far more lip service than proper appreciation in this country, and this attractive record should do something to...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/1986
Bruckner Symphony No 8
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Günter Wand
Few readings in recent years have been more assiduously toured or generally acclaimed than Wand’s Bruckner Eighth yet Wand himself...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 1/2002
Elgar/Walton Violin Concertos
London Symphony Orchestra | Richard Hickox | Salvatore Accardo
After Dong-Suk Kang, eminently satisfying on Naxos, to say nothing of the classic, long-breathed Kennedy (EMI) or before him, Heifetz...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 7/1992
Tchaikovsky & Rachmaninov Piano Concertos
Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra | Mariss Jansons | Mikhail Rudy
On the face of it the catalogue is not exactly crying out for this issue. But it turns out to...
Reviewed in issue 4/1992
Holst Orchestral Works
David Lloyd-Jones | Royal Scottish National Orchestra | Tim Hugh
This disc, superbly recorded in the Henry Wood Hall in Glasgow, makes a most welcome addition to Naxos’s growing collection...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/1998
Haydn Piano Sonatas
For every new record of Haydn's piano music I suppose there must be half-a-dozen of Mozart's, at least. Alone among...
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 12/1986
Barber/Dello Joio Orchestral Works
James Sedares | New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Norman Dello Joio has had a productive obsession with Joan of Arc. This symphony started life as an opera, produced...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 9/1994
Brahms Piano Trios
Those of us lucky enough to have been at Hungary’s 1990 Interforum at Esterhaza will remember Norway’s not-long-founded Grieg Trio...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1996
Schneiderhan plays Beethoven
Carl Seemann | István Kertész | London Symphony Orchestra | Wolfgang Schneiderhan
Wolfgang Schneiderhan’s first commercial recording of the Beethoven Concerto (under Paul van Kempen, for DG) was long considered a benchmark:...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2007
Holst Planets
Charles Dutoit | Montreal Symphony Orchestra | Montreal Symphony Orchestra Chorus
From those of its recordings which I have heard, I judge that the Montreal Symphony Orchestra has become a world-class...
Reviewed in issue 4/1987
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