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Brahms (The) Piano Quartets
Leopold String Trio | Marc-André Hamelin
Of all Brahms’s chamber music, I’ve always felt his finest works were the quintets and sextets. In the smaller line-ups...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 1/2007
Szymanowski (The) Complete Mazurkas
A more potent or original voice than Szymanowski’s is hard to imagine. True, there are key influences to be observed...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 9/2003
Prokofiev Cinderella - Suites Nos 1 and 3
All these discs have their merits, but the Decca/Dutoit selection from Romeo and Juliet—Prokofiev's greatest orchestral work—is in a class...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 9/1991
Bortkiewicz Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 3
David Porcelijn | Janácek Philharmonic Orchestra | Stefan Doniga
Bortkiewicz’s 1923 Concerto for the Left Hand was one of many works commissioned by the one-armed pianist Paul Wittgenstein (others...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 5/2009
KARAEV Orchestral Works
These two works by the Azerbaijani composer Faradzh Karaev (b1943) date from 2004 (Violin Concerto) and 2009 (Vingt ans après...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 06/2016
Gluck Orfeo ed Euridice
Just over a year ago, a recording of Gluck’s Orphee et Eurydice was issued with Ewa Podles in the central...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 4/1999
Two Sides of George Gershwin
Excellent to have all this archival material on a single CD now. The performances of Rhapsody in Blue and An...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 9/1991
Crossover Today
Apparently the Strings of Fire Festival, where these CDs were recorded, was acclaimed as ‘a conceptual adventure from which the...
Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 9/2004
MUSSORGSKY A Night on the Bare Mountain RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Scheherazade
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra | Zdenek Chalabala
Zdeněk Chalabala’s greatest claim to fame was as an opera conductor – in Prague, Brno and at the Bolshoi –...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW/2012
Shostakovich; Shchedrin Piano Concertos
Andrew Litton | BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra | Marc-André Hamelin | Mark O'Keefe
For a virtuoso as consummate as Marc-André Hamelin, Shostakovich’s piano concertos might seem almost like a stroll in the park....
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 1/2004
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