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Dvorák Slavonic Dances
Katia Labèque | Marielle Labèque
Dvorak's Slavonic Dances owe their existence to Brahms's publisher, who thought that the older composer's Hungarian Dances might usefully have...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 12/1992
BRAUNFELS Don Juan. Symphonic Variations
Markus Frank | Philharmonisches Orchester Altenburg-Gera
Braunfels’s Don Juan dates from 1924, when the composer’s reputation was riding high. Furtwängler conducted its premiere and the piece...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 02/2016
Dvorák Slavonic Dances
Dvorak’s Slavonic Dances are among the most endearing works in the repertoire. In the 1870s they took London – a...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 7/2000
TCHAIKOVSKY Plus One, Vol 2 (Barry Douglas)
Barry Douglas continues his ‘personal salute … to great masterworks of the Russian repertoire’ after a first volume that paired...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2019
Encore - Cristina Ortiz
Cristina Ortiz is beautifully recorded in London's Henry Wood Hall; although on big speakers the bass may want balancing back...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 1/1992
My Restless Soul
Dmitri Hvorostovsky | Mikhail Arkadiov
I wish I could be as enthusiastic about the singing here as I am about the programme, which gives us...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1995
Slavic Heroes
Lukasz Borowicz | Mariusz Kwiecien | Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Regardless of one’s admiration for Mariusz Kwiecien´’s singing on this disc, the programming fills a valuable niche: the smartly chosen...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2012
Works for Cello and Piano
Brahms's Cello Sonata in D? A misprint you might at first think when reading the title. But no: this is...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1992
Dvorák Slavonic Dances
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra | Václav Talich
Talich's 1935 set of Slavonic Dances (recorded for HMV) is richly enjoyable in Music and Arts' excellent new transfer (6/92),...
Reviewed in issue 6/1994
Grieg Peer Gynt Suites 1 & 2; In Autumn; Symphonic Dances
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra | Sakari Oramo
As soon as the strings respond to the flute near the beginning of Peer Gynt’s ‘Morning’ – longingly leaning on...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 1/2001
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