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Gershwin: Orchestral works
Alexis Weissenberg | Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Elaine Donohoe | Seiji Ozawa
Catfish Row, Gershwin's own suite from Porgy and Bess, is the news here. First performend in 1936, this was forgotten...
Reviewed in issue 10/1984
Elena Zaremba - Portrait
Berlin Symphony Orchestra | Eléna Zaremba | Lior Shambadal
Zaremba‚ as she showed a few years ago at Covent Garden‚ has one of those rich‚ voluptuous mezzos that entrance...
Reviewed in issue 13/2001
Rzewski Chamber Works
Churning rhythm and seemingly minimalist, rigorously-controlled melodic patterns characterise three of Frederic Rzewski’s early works presented by the audacious and...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 8/2003
Chopin/Mendelssohn/Scriabin/Prokofiev Piano Works
Glenn Gould | Karel Ancerl | Toronto Symphony Orchestra | Vladimir Golschmann
While most of us turn gratefully to music we cherish and admire, Glenn Gould often performed and even recorded music...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 4/1996
Maxwell-Davies Symphony No 1
(The) Fires of London | Peter Maxwell Davies | Philharmonia Orchestra | Simon Rattle
I have vivid memories of 23-year-old Simon Rattle bounding onto the rostrum at the Royal Festival Hall, on February 2,...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 9/2003
GLUCK Orfeo ed Euridice (Fasolis)
If Gluck’s Orfeo was slow to catch on in Vienna, the city of its premiere, it enjoyed repeated success south...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2018
Dohnanyi Symphony No 1
Leon Botstein | London Philharmonic Orchestra
Leon Botstein places his cards squarely on the table by insisting that ‘this fantastic and compelling piece of music has...
Reviewed in issue 2/1999
MAHLER Symphony No 4
Gabriel Feltz | Jeannette Wernecke | Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra
Another relatively lightweight Fourth, recorded live in glorious sound, proves interpretatively a curate’s egg. On the rostrum is Gabriel Feltz,...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: AW/2012
Prokofiev Suites from Romeo & Juliet
Barry Wordsworth | Philharmonia Orchestra
Although listed on the disc itself as Prokofiev's Suites Nos. 1 and 2 from Romeo and Juliet, the front of...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/1990
Elgar Symphony 1
Roger Norrington | South West German Radio Symphony Orchestra
In its purposeful symphonic thrust and unsentimental objectivity, Sir Roger Norrington's interpretation of Elgar's First Symphony is basically in the...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 6/2000
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