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KORNGOLD Symphonic Serenade. Sextet
Hartmut Rohde | NFM Leopoldinum Orcherstra
Some exaggerated claims have been made for Erich Korngold’s extra-cinematic output but here are two of his finer works performed...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2018
Shura Cherkassky Live
Cherkassky 80—it seems impossible that the chirpy, imp-like figure seen bounding on to the platform with youthful enthusiasm on so...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1991
Lazar Berman - Piano Recital
To be dubbed ''The Legendary'' can be a curse for a musician. But the fact is that Lazar Berman's Liszt...
Reviewed in issue 6/1992
Mendelssohn Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2
Aldo Ceccato | John Ogdon | London Symphony Orchestra
Aldo Ceccato is not the most inspiring of partners for John Ogdon. Even the excellent playing of the Philharmonia cannot...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 11/2003
The Composer-Pianists
Here is a cunning and potent mix of every conceivable form of pianistic and musical intricacy (it excludes the merely...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 8/1998
HINDEMITH Symphonic Metamorphosis. Nobilissima Visione
Marek Janowski | WDR Symphony Orchestra
I’d have to agree with Guy Rickards’s assertion that Hindemith’s Symphonic Metamorphosis is the most immediately attractive of his orchestral...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 05/2018
Sofya Gulyak Recital
Sofya Gulyak, who has won first prizes in many competitions, including both the William Kapell in Maryland and the Leeds,...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2013
MIKHASHOFF Songs and Dances
Amy Williams | Daniel Pesca | Sarah Frisof | Tiffany Du Mouchelle
Yvar Mikhashoff (1941 93) was best known as a pianist who championed contemporary music in big ways. He thought nothing...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2024
Lehár Symphonic Works
This splendidly produced collection will surprise and, I believe, delight. Lehar’s mastery of the orchestra has never been in doubt;...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 7/1998
BRAHMS Cello Sonatas. Hungarian Dances
Alexandre Tharaud | Jean-Guihen Queyras
The late Joan Chissell, reviewing Jacqueline du Pré and Daniel Barenboim’s recording of the two Brahms sonatas (EMI, 12/68), said...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2018
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