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Addinsell Film Soundtracks
I don’t pretend to have heard more than a few of the reputed 100-plus recordings of the Warsaw Concerto; but...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 5/2003
Furtwängler conducts Richard Strauss and Smetana
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra | Wilhelm Furtwängler
''Vltava'' from Smetana's Ma vlast is somewhat incongruously pressed into service here as a prelude to the reissue of HMV's...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/1994
Piano Transcriptions
There is playing on this disc which can only be called stupendous; and much of it is in the Petrushka...
Reviewed in issue 9/1989
Smetana; Dvorak String Quartets
Ten years old this year, the Sacconi Quartet, who are Quartet in Association at the Royal College of Music and...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 13/2011
Dvorák/Smetana String Quartets
Not surprisingly, there are quite a few records coupling these two most popular of Czech string quartets, recent ones among...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 2/1996
Gluck Orphée
What we badly need is an Orfeo conducted by Gardiner to match the dramatic authenticity of his Iphigenie en Tauride...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1988
Brahms/Dvorák Chamber Works
Alban Berg Qt | Elisabeth Leonskaja
Leonskaja and the Alban Berg Quartet face considerable competition here, and not least quantatively, from Ranki and colleagues on Hungaroton/Conifer...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 10/1988
Prokofiev Music for Children
Finchley Children's Music Group | New London Orchestra | Oleg Prokofiev | Penelope Walmsley-Clark
Prokofiev's second childhood: Jose Serebrier (ASV, 7/91) recently took a similar trip down this particular memory lane, but the images...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/1991
ELGAR The Spanish Lady. Organ Sonata (Yates)
Martin Yates | Royal Scottish National Orchestra
It was in the late summer of 1932 that Elgar began jotting down ideas for The Spanish Lady, a ‘Grand...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2019
PROKOFIEV Symphony No 7. Lieutenant Kijé - Suite
Marin Alsop | São Paulo Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop’s Prokofiev cycle has had its ups and downs. A particular highlight was the generous coupling of the 1947...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 01/2018
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