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Stokowski conducts Russian Music, Vol.1
In no part of the repertoire was Stokowski more consistently successful than in colourful, romantic Russian music. He and the...
Reviewed in issue 7/1994
Russian Orthodox Music
Peter Phillips | Tallis Scholars
To review with anything like adequacy a record that includes music from the sixteenth century by way of Rachmaninov and...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 4/1983
CHADWICK Symphonic Sketches ELGAR Enigma Variations
Andrew Constantine | BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Let me urge immediate investigation of George Whitefield Chadwick’s Symphonic Sketches (1895-1904), four colourful tableaux of red-blooded vigour, fresh-faced charm...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2017
Aux étoiles - French Symphonic Poems
Lyon National Orchestra | Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider
Name 15 French symphonic poems. Assuming Saint-Saëns’s Danse macabre and Dukas’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice head your list, where next? After...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 01/2024
BEETHOVEN The Creatures of Prometheus. 12 German Dances. 12 Menuets
Swedish Chamber Orchestra | Thomas Dausgaard
Anyone in Beethoven’s orchestral world who ventures beyond the well-travelled symphonic trail has some remedial work to do – first...
Reviewed by Ken Smith in issue: 08/2013
Dvorák Cello Concerto; Symphonic Variations
Budapest Festival Orchestra | Pieter Wispelwey
Dutch firm Channel Classics has been stepping in where major internationals are being cautious – recording the central repertoire. Here...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 13/2007
Hommage à Primrose
Ben Martin | Hartmut Lindemann
Hommage a Primrose Works by Brahms, Joachim, Paganini, Rachmaninov, Vitali and Wieniawski Haartmut...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 12/1999
Credo King's College Choir
King's College Choir, Cambridge | Paul Nicholson | Stephen Cleobury
I readily admit to being moved to tears on first hearing this disc, and innumerable playings subsequently have not fully...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 10/1997
Grieg Symphonic Dances;Piano Concerto, Op 16
Academy of St Martin in the Fields | Garrick Ohlsson | Neville Marriner
Good performances of the Grieg Piano Concerto are two-a-penny, and many are almost inevitably coupled with the Schumann Concerto. It...
Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 5/1998
Linus Roth: Virtuoso Dances
The lockdown world has compelled musicians to come up with projects aimed for spiritual uplift. That’s precisely the premise behind...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2021
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