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JANÁCEK The Diary of One Who Disappeared DVORÁK Biblical Songs
Only months after Nicky Spence’s superb new recording of Janáček’s haunting song-cycle (Hyperion, 8/19), here comes another account of The...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 11/2019
Scriabin Complete Piano Works, Volume 4
After a long delay, Gordon Fergus-Thompson continues his Scriabin series for ASV with Volume 4, the complete Mazurkas. The Mazurka...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/2000
Gluck Orfeo ed Euridice
The first version of this opera was set to an Italian libretto, and Orpheus was sung by an alto castrato....
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 1/2005
Korngold & Marx Piano Concertos
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra | Marc-André Hamelin | Osmo Vänskä
Lush as lush can be – that’s the Joseph Marx Romantisches Klavierkonzert. It’s all the most wildly romantic concertos you...
Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 4/1998
Gluck Ballet Music
Gluck's Don Juan ballet of 1761 is reckoned just as important in the history of ballet as his Orfeo ed...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 10/1993
Barbirolli English Music Album (The)
Hallé Choir | Hallé Orchestra | John Barbirolli | Mai Dun | Parry Jones
The longburied treasure here is Barbirolli’s very first recording of Elgar’s Enigma Variations‚ never previously issued. As Michael Kennedy’s authoritative...
Reviewed in issue 4/2002
Brahms/Dvorák Orchestral Works
Alfredo Campoli | André Navarra | Hallé Orchestra | John Barbirolli
Both the Eighth and New World show the inimitable Halle/Barbirolli partnership at its most inspirationally fresh, and the enormously characterful...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/1998
Ibérica
This engaging new release leaves no doubt that the sometimes cheerful, sometimes melancholy song of the cello can pull off...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 3/2010
MIGNONE; ALBENIZ Piano Concertos
Clélia Iruzun | Jac van Steen | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Don’t let the strange cover photo put you off (conductor looking into camera, soloist looking in a completely different direction)....
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2018
Dvorák/Smetana Orchestral Works
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra | Josef Suk | Karel Ancerl
The Italian company Ermitage (not currently distributed in the UK) have already issued a live New World and Bartered bride...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 4/1996
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