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Tchaikovsky Orchestral Works
Detroit Symphony Orchestra | Neeme Järvi
The special delight here is the orchestration of Tchaikovsky’s piano suite, The Seasons. It was made at the height of...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/1997
Heininen: Orchestral and Piano Works
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra | Ilmo Ranta | Ulf Söderblom
Paavo Heininen is notable as one of the first Finnish composers to adopt the 12-note technique (around 1960); but he...
Reviewed in issue 12/1990
Handel: Overtures
(The) English Concert | Trevor Pinnock
It will be the privilege of a very few of us, I hear, to be able to see, or even...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 12/1986
Martinu Ballets
Christopher Hogwood | Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
La Revue de cuisine was the only one of these three ballets (all dating from 1927) performed in the composer’s...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 11/2004
Elgar (The) Dream of Gerontius
Alice Coote | Bryn Terfel | Hallé Choir | Hallé Orchestra | Mark Elder | Paul Groves
It is only fitting that the Hallé should be the source of the only recording of Gerontius in recent times...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 1/2009
Chopin Mazurkas; Polonaise-Fantaisie.
As a Chopin player, Cédric Tiberghien’s expressive notions in the name of Romantic style do not consistently ring true and,...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2010
Schubert Works for Piano four hands
One might expect this combination of artists playing Schubert to produce winning results, and so it does. Rarely will you...
Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 8/1997
Vers la flamme - Niklas Sivelöv plays Scriabin
Niklas Sivelöv | Vesselin Stanev
These recitals are sharply contrasted in both content and style. Vesselin Stanov, a 42-year-old Bulgarian pianist, opts for early Scriabin,...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/2007
Yoshimatsu Symphony No 4; Trombone Concerto; Atomic Hearts Club Suite
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra | Ian Bousfield | Sachio Fujioka
Chandos’s ‘ComposerinResidence’ since 1998‚ Takashi Yoshimatsu (b1953) completed his Fourth Symphony in 2000. In the booklet‚ the composer tells us...
Reviewed in issue 10/2002
Prokofiev String Quartets
The two Prokofiev quartets are relatively little featured in the concert hall, though the Second and better-known of the two...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 7/1991
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