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BRAHMS Symphony 4 DVORÁK Symphony 9 (Hrůša)
Bamberg Symphony Orchestra | Jakub Hrusa
In Jakub Hrůša’s hands, the opening of Brahms’s Fourth becomes a series of world-weary sighs, an apt lead-in to a...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2019
Trumpet Rhapsody
Shimmering, sentimental and epic and, like all legends, inimitable. The now-septuagenarian Timofei Dokshitzer is at long last properly represented in...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 2/1997
Dvorák & Wagner: Orchestral Works
Bohdan Warchal | Jaime Laredo | Scottish Chamber Orchestra | Slovak Chamber Orchestra
The vivacity, lilt and charm of Dvorak's Serenade for strings have earned the piece a firm place in the catalogue,...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 4/1990
Ferguson: Piano Works
Hilary Macnamara | Howard Shelley
It's good to have these marvellous works transferred to CD. Ferguson, now in his eighty-second year, laid down his composing...
Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 1/1991
Dvorák/Herbert Cello Concertos
Kurt Masur | New York Philharmonic Orchestra | Yo-Yo Ma
Like Ofra Harnoy’s recent RCA version of the Dvorak (see above), this one has a fancy title, but a much...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/1996
Alexander Gavrylyuk - Live in Recital
Alexander Gavrylyuk is a young Russian pianist whose recital at the Miami Piano Festival last year must have sent his...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/2006
Albéniz Iberia
Hervé Billaut | Marc-André Hamelin
Here is the most immaculate, effortless and refined of all Iberias. Where others fight to stay afloat, Marc-André Hamelin rides...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/2005
BLUMENFELD; CATOIRE Symphonies
Martin Yates | Royal Scottish National Orchestra
These two Russian symphonies come from a time when Tchaikovsky was still role model No 1, Myaskovsky had yet to...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 03/2013
Rimsky-Korsakov Orchestral Works
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra | Dmitri Kitaenko
The Bergen Philharmonic play these highly colourful showpieces very well for Dmitri Kitaienko, and succeed in playing them as more...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1993
Guitar Duets
The names of the composers (and most of their works in this programme) are familiar, but those of the performers...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 7/1993
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