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DVOŘÁK Piano Trio No 3 SMETANA Piano Trio Op 15 SUK Elegy
Smetana’s G minor Trio has one of the grandest openings in the entire piano trio repertoire, its Lisztian axis much...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2014
Rimsky-Korsakov: Complete Symphonies, etc
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra | Neeme Järvi
As Richard Taruskin's admirable essay accompanying this set declares, ''the works of Rimsky-Korsakov may be conveniently divided into two groups:...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 2/1989
Scriabin Symphonies, etc
These are the first issues of 1990s recordings at half the price of Muti's acclaimed Philadelphia set. What is more,...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/1995
Motets
As the declared intention of this disc is to ''reveal the vast acoustic environment of the Cathedral Church of St...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 1/1993
Gluck La rencontre imprévue
If you think of Gluck exclusively as a purveyor of the exalted, serene, classical emotions of an Orfeo or Iphigenie...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 10/1991
Gluck Alceste
Gluck’s Alceste‚ written in Vienna as his second ‘reform’ opera in 1767‚ then rewritten for Paris in 1776‚ has always...
Reviewed in issue 13/2002
French and Russian Music for Piano and Winds
Reykjavik Wind Quintet | Vovka Ashkenazy
There is something very special about French chamber music for wind instruments and this collection is a splendid example. Vovka...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 7/2007
PROKOFIEV Symphony No 3. Scythian Suite
Marin Alsop | São Paulo Symphony Orchestra
Prokofiev, who never liked playing second fiddle to anyone, must have been piqued by Shostakovich’s Soviet celebrity. But could the...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2015
ELGAR Cello Concerto SMETANA Ma Vlast
Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra | Krzysztof Urbanski | Zuill Bailey
Zuill Bailey is a class act, as anyone who has investigated his recordings of the Korngold and Dvořák cello concertos...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2013
Prokofiev Cinderella
Cleveland Orchestra | Vladimir Ashkenazy
The only previous complete recording of Cinderella (by Rozhdestvensky and the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra—HMV SXDW3026, 3/77) is no longer...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 11/1983
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