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ANDRIESSEN Symphonic Works Vol 4
David Porcelijn | Netherlands Symphony Orchestra
The continuation of CPO’s Hendrik Andriessen series shows the Dutchman to be nothing if not consistent. His music is always...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 09/2017
Kreisler/McCormack Duets
At the period when all but one of the recordings on the EMI disc were made, McCorrnack had become one...
Reviewed in issue 9/1989
Dvorák Symphonic Poems
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra | Stephen Gunzenhauser
''Value for money... but at a price!'', to quote a phrase coined by RC a few months back. As an...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 5/1994
Alexander Kipnis Opera & Song Recital
In Russian music for the bass voice, Kipnis could be called the link between Chaliapin and Christoff, and probably had...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1992
FRANCES-HOAD The Whole Earth Dances
Cheryl Frances-Hoad (b1980) has enjoyed a fruitful relationship with Champs Hill Records these past few years, this latest release a...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2020
Midnight at Notre Dame
‘While Paris slept,’ reads the blurb, ‘Notre-Dame’s organist Olivier Latry recorded this musical celebration of well-known classics.’ Indeed, the absence...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 3/2005
Dvorák Slavonic Dances, Opp 46 & 72
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra | Yoel Levi
An air of businesslike formality settles over these neatly tailored performances, a case more of swinging rolled umbrellas than swirling...
Reviewed in issue 6/1999
JAËLL Symphonic and Piano Music
Marie Jaëll, Liszt claimed, had ‘the brains of a philosopher and the hands of an artist’. The subject of the...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 03/2016
Van Cliburn Competition 1993 Gold Medal Winner
Christopher Taylor | Simone Pedroni | Valeri Kuleshov
The Van Cliburn International Piano Competition (its progress, from humble beginnings to a lavish extravaganza, lovingly charted in the insert-notes...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 4/1994
Heifetz Collection - Gershwin & Encores
Brooks Smith | Emanuel Bay | Jascha Heifetz
This disc might well have been designed to illustrate the opening line of Wolf's Italian Songbook, ''Auch kleine Dinge...'', ''Little...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 6/1993
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