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PROKOFIEV Symphony No 6. Waltz Suite
Marin Alsop | São Paulo Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop adds to the recent spate of Sixths with a curiously low-voltage performance. Her overall timings suggest that she...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 10/2016
Brahms; Dvorák Gypsy Songs
Julian Jacobson | Paul Silverthorne | Roger Vignoles | Sarah Walker
This coupling of Brahms's and Dvorak's gipsy songs is a natural and good idea, its practicability limited by the number...
Reviewed in issue 4/1994
Brahms/Dvorák String Quartets
London audiences are lucky to have the Skampa Quartet as a more-or-less permanent fixture, primarily at the Wigmore Hall where...
Reviewed in issue 8/1999
Gluck Orphée et Eurydice
It is good to have these two recordings of Gluck's great opera in the CD catalogue, and I would welcome...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 5/1993
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 8. STRAVINSKY Concerto for Piano and Winds
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Paavo Berglund
Writing for the Warner Icon box of Berglund’s EMI recordings, David Nice remembers the ‘awful numbness’ of the Eighth Symphony’s...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2015
SUK; DVOŘÁK; SMETANA Piano Trios
Did you know that Josef Suk composed a habanera? Well, neither did I and, in all probability, neither did he....
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue:
Prokofiev Piano Sonatas, Vol. 3
By the end of 1991 (Prokofiev's centenary year) we're going to be so spoilt for good Prokofiev recordings that it's...
Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 4/1991
Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet (excerpts)
Michael Tilson Thomas | San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Clocking in at over 78 minutes, Michael Tilson Thomas’s new selection serves up even more generous measure than those already...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 5/1996
(The) Majesty of Thy Glory
James Vivian | Temple Church Choir
This substantial and festal programme contrasts three settings of the Te Deum spanning 250 years of English composers, from Purcell...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 4/2011
Dvorák String Quartets
The Chilingirian's coupling of two more of Dvorak's finest string quartets, in the wake of their disc of Nos. 8...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1990
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