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Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Sergei Rachmaninov
Rachmaninov’s playing presents the listener with a strange but delicious paradox. On the one hand, it is individualistic virtually to...
Reviewed in issue 10/1998
Tine
Kathryn Stott | Tine Thing Helseth
Tine Thing Helseth’s playing is stylish in every way and there is ready virtuosity when required. She immediately finds character...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 05/2013
Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No 1; Rachmaninov Paganini Rhapsody
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra | David Zinman | Horacio Gutiérrez
There are many very good Tchaikovsky B flats around and it is easy to sound ungrateful when yet another very...
Reviewed in issue 10/1990
Moye Chen: Four Worlds
The programme is an interesting – indeed, unique – collection of more or less popular virtuoso encores composed by great...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2019
FIBICH Symphonic Poems
Czech National Symphony Orchestra | Marek Štilec
Zdeněk Fibich’s tone-poems are roughly contemporaneous with Smetana’s and precede D Dvořák's Erben-inspired late masterpieces by a number of years....
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW2014
BRIAN Symphonic Movements from 'The Tigers'
Leopold Hager | Luxembourg Radio Symphony Orchestra
It’s not before time that these sparkling performances of the symphonic extracts from Havergal Brian’s surreal, anti-war comic opera The...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW2014
DVOŘÁK Slavonic Dances Opp 46 & 72
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra | Jirí Belohlávek
In my experience it’s fairly rare that conductors who excel in Dvořák’s first set of Slavonic Dances are quite as...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2016
Rostropovich 70th Birthday Issue
Eagle-eyed collectors will have snapped up this classic April 1957 account of the Dvorak when it briefly appeared on the...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 5/1997
Roberta Alexandra - Songs my Mother taught me
Brian Masuda | Roberta Alexander
‘There is simply no way to describe this music other than Songs my Mother taught me,’ writes the soprano in...
Reviewed in issue 7/1999
FRANCK Symphonic organ works
Given that Franck pioneered the concept of the orchestral organ, and with his Grand Pièce symphonique of 1863 effectively created...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 01/2014
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