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Prokofiev; Scriabin Piano Sonatas
Wojciech Kocyan’s 2002 and 2005 recitals for the Dux label have resurfaced in time for me to alert collectors not...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 3/2008
Borodin Quartet 60th Anniversary
One of my most abiding musical memories is of a series of three concerts at the Goldsmiths’ Hall where the...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 9/2005
Vocalises
Berlin Symphony Orchestra | Michael Schønwandt | Natalie Dessay
“The proper place for the performance of vocalises is in the singing studios” wrote a critic in The Musical Times...
Reviewed in issue 7/1998
Alkan Piano Works
André Previn | Bernard Ringeissen | London Symphony Orchestra | Ronald Smith
Alkan's Grandes Etudes are certainly grandes (they play for close on 40 minutes) and although they are early works (the...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 11/1988
MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition (Petrenko)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra | Vasily Petrenko
This is one of those discs that commands respect (this conductor is pretty much always a safe investment) without setting...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 01/2020
LISZT Transcriptions of Symphonic Poems
Since its inception in 1987, the Naxos Liszt series has released a number of superb recordings. The names Arnaldo Cohen,...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 08/2016
Myaskovsky Complete Symphonic Works, Vol 4: Symphonies Nos 4 and 11
Evgeni Svetlanov | Russian Federation Academic Symphony Orchestra
With these fourth and fifth instalments of Olympia’s Miaskovsky cycle‚ the composer’s twintrack creative trajectory comes more clearly into focus....
Reviewed in issue 5/2002
Dawn Upshaw Recital
While it is interesting to hear a singer’s first steps along the way to fame, they often have to be...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1996
Vyacheslav Gryaznov: Russian Transcriptions
The art of the piano transcription is alive and kicking – or, more accurately, alive and singing in the hands...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2018
COUPERIN Dances from the Bauyn Manuscript
For his latest Hyperion release, the immensely talented Pavel Kolesnikov has taken up an extraordinarily daunting challenge. In his decision...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2018
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