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Simon Barere at Carnegie Hall, Vol.1
(Anonymous) Orchestra | David Broekman | Simon Barere
After the appearance of Bryan Crimp's valuable refurbishments of Simon Barere's dazzling HMV recordings of 1934–6 (# APR7001, 12/85), an...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 11/1989
BRAHMS Hungarian Dances (Sabrina-Vivian Höpcker)
Fabio Bidini | Sabrina-Vivian Höpcker
One usually thinks of Brahms’s Hungarian Dances as light music, but evidently Sabrina-Vivian Höpcker does not. The levity and whimsy...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2019
Mikhail Kazakevich Piano Recital
Not a bad programme. The Brahms Intermezzos are balm and solace after the rodomontade of the Rachmaninov last movement, and...
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 9/1994
Wagner/Stokowski Symphonic Syntheses
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra | José Serebrier
It would be hard to imagine a more sumptuous disc. Stokowski, in these “symphonic syntheses”, enhances Wagner’s already opulent orchestration...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 13/2007
Russia Sings
St Petersburg Glinka Academy Choir | Vladislav Chernushenko
The Russian choral tradition is one of the world's greatest, but it has also had one of the most difficult...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 3/1992
Cliburn Gold 2017: Yekwon Sunwoo
The Van Cliburn International Competition does not have a great history of choosing winners. The 28-year-old Yekwon Sunwoo from South Korea...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2017
(The) 5 Browns - No Boundaries
Deondra Brown | Desirae Brown | Melody Brown | Ryan Brown | The 5 Browns
The Five Browns are talented, photogenic pianists who all studied at the Juilliard, seem to get along together and, judging...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2006
Sommernachtskonzert 2017
Christoph Eschenbach | Renée Fleming | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
The Vienna Philharmonic’s Summer Night Concerts, open-air affairs in front of Schönnbrunn Palace, are now rushed on to the market...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 09/2017
Li Due Orfei. Haec Dies: Music for Easter
Angelique Mauillon | Clare College Choir, Cambridge | Graham Ross | Marc Mauillon | Matthew Jorysz
We all know what you get from an Oxbridge choral disc – at least we did until Graham Ross arrived...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 05/2016
Arnold Orchestral Dances
Andrew Penny | Queensland Symphony Orchestra (Brisbane)
This new Naxos set of the Arnold Dances from the Queensland orchestra under Andrew Penny is well worth its modest...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/1996
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