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Prokofiev Suites from Romeo & Juliet
Cleveland Orchestra | Yoel Levi
The young Romanian conductor, Yoel Levi, was Resident Conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra from 1980 to 1984. This splendid Prokofiev...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/1987
Atterberg Symphony No 9
Having rattled off six symphonies by the time he was 40, the remaining 47 years of Atterberg’s life saw just...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 13/2003
Muhly I Drink the Air before Me
This is Nico Muhly’s second album for Decca, from which we’ll presume his Decca debut, “A Good Understanding”, did pretty...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 1/2011
Gluck I Cinesi
In the hands of Gluck, Metastasio's Le cinesi (''The Chinese ladies'') is a delightful work. How very interesting it would...
Reviewed in issue 1/1990
Prokofiev Piano Sonatas, Vol. 2
Prominently printed on the covers of Barbara Nissman's Prokofiev sonata cycle are the words ''Analytically Indexed''. To be sure, if...
Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 6/1991
PROKOFIEV Romeo and Juliet
Sydney Symphony Orchestra | Vladimir Ashkenazy
Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet has fared well on disc, with multiple recordings of the suites and latterly of the complete...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 01/2013
ELGAR Music for Powick Asylum
Barry Collett | Innovation Chamber Ensemble
For all Elgar Liebhaber, those crucial years of his autodidactic apprenticeship in Worcester seem endlessly intriguing, particularly in how he...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 06/2014
GLUCK Iphigénie en Aulide
Iphigénie en Aulide was the first opera that Gluck wrote for Paris, where it was staged in 1774. It’s not...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 05/2014
Kirsten Flagstad
These two issues neatly complement each other. The Nimbus enshrines the great soprano's pre-war Victors; the Testament derives from early...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1993
Brahms Piano Concerto No 2; (4) Piano Pieces, Op 119
Andrew Litton | Dallas Symphony Orchestra | Marc-André Hamelin
Hearing a Brahms piano concerto live in concert can be a nerve-racking experience, though not when Marc-André Hamelin’s name is...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/2006
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