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Shostakovich Symphonies Nos 4 - 9
Kirov Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre | Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra | Valery Gergiev
The temptation for a biographer or film-maker either to build their subject up or to knock it down must be...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 3/2006
Maric Borrowed Time
Clive Driskill-Smith | Colin Currie | Dave Maric | Håkan Hardenberger | Sam Walton
The point of this disc is to showcase the superb playing of young British percussionist Colin Currie. Dave Maric’s music...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 11/2007
Handel Water Music
(The) English Concert | Trevor Pinnock
Whatever the circumstances were which prompted Handel to write his Water Music, it is highly unlikely that George I ever...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 1/1984
Korngold Der Ring des Polykrates
The fact that so many distinguished recordings of Korngold’s works have appeared in the last few years must surely be...
Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 3/1997
Skalkottas Concerto No 3 for Piano and Ten Wind Instruments; (The) Gnomes
Caput Ensemble | Geoffrey Douglas Madge | Nikos Christodoulou
Nikos Skalkottas’s centenary is the right year for one of his major works to receive a first commercial outing. The...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 3/2005
Beethoven Symphonies No 3 & 8
Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, Bremen | Paavo Järvi
Urgency is the keyword here, a quality underlined in part by the use of a virtuoso chamber orchestra and also...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 1/2008
Vivaldi: Chamber Concertos
Of these five works only one (RV103) has any other version on CD, one which NA received coolly (Deutsche Harmonia...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 9/1987
Arensky; Glazunov; Liadov Piano Works
Scottish pianist Martin Cousin’s 2006 disc debut of Rachmaninov’s First Sonata was greeted with widespread admiration. His latest disc underlines...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 1/2011
Dvorák Rusalka
It was not until 1987 that the Vienna State Opera presented Dvorák’s most successful opera, some 85 years after Mahler’s...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/2004
Lehár (Die) Lustige Witwe; Der Graf von Luxemburg - excs
The drawbacks here are Stolz’s own overture and his crude reprise of the main waltz at the end. Otherwise I...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 12/1998
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