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DVOŘÁK Symphony No 8 STRAUSS Don Quixote
Mariss Jansons | Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks | Yo-Yo Ma
The headline act in this January 2016 Munich concert was the cellist Yo-Yo Ma as the eponymous hero of Richard...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 02/2017
Falla Ballet & Orchestral Works
Adrian Leaper | Gran Canaria Philharmonic Orchestra | Ricardo Castro
Playing and recording that almost completely belie the disc’s price category. The ‘almost’ is Leaper needing to let himself go...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 13/1998
Jean-Paul Gasparian: Origins
Though born in Paris, Jean-Paul Gasparian identifies as ethnically Armenian. He will be 29 this year and has already amassed...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2024
Original 19th Century Music for Brass
Christopher Larkin | London Gabrieli Brass Ensemble
An enterprising and extremely well-documented record, this collection is a distinct success. I listened to it both at a properly...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/1992
Gluck Alceste
Almost all critics of Gluck’s two versions of Alceste – the Italian original, first given in Vienna in 1767, and...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 8/1999
Prokofiev/Janacek Violin Sonatas
Both players were born in 1960, Devos in Brussels where Hardy (originally from Baltimore) now lives. How long they have...
Reviewed in issue 6/1992
Violin Favourites
Renaissance Singers | Ulster Orchestra | Yan Pascal Tortelier
Where for one generation the name Tortelier stood for all that was best in cello-playing, for another (if Yan Pascal...
Reviewed in issue 9/1991
Dvorak; Strauss, R Cello Chamber Works
Richard Strauss’s youthful Cello Sonata is often described, following Norman Del Mar’s classic study of his music, as influenced by...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 3/2009
Marc-André Hamelin - It's all about the music
Lahti Symphony Orchestra | Marc-André Hamelin | Osmo Vänskä | Ronald Stevenson
There are two ways of looking at this DVD – if you take my meaning. The first is as a...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 1/2007
Miniatures for Orchestra
Adrian Boult | Christopher Bunting | Gwenneth Pryor | London Philharmonic Orchestra
Some of this collection, which dates from 1967 shows Sir Adrian in repertoire he was not often given the chance...
Reviewed in issue 4/1988
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