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Horowitz in Moscow
The return to his homeland in 1986 by the world’s most famous living instrumentalist after an absence of 61 years...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 2/2006
Dvorák Symphonic Poems and Concert Overtures
Bohumil Gregor | Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
One can think of lots of reasons why Dvorak's symphonic poems have never attained the recognition or popularity of those...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 10/1991
Piano 'War Horses'
Meridian offer a photo but no biographical information on Roger Press; and their recording set-up does him no favours either—a...
Reviewed in issue 5/1990
WEINBERG Solo Violin Sonatas SHOSTAKOVICH 3 Fantastic Dances
The sonata for solo string instrument is a genre Weinberg made more or less his own in the Soviet Union,...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 09/2016
Bax Symphonic Variations; Morning Song
Bryden Thomson | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Margaret Fingerhut
Bax wrote his Symphonic Variations during the 1914–18 war for Harriet Cohen (with whom he was by then living, having...
Reviewed in issue 2/1988
ALFVÉN Symphonic Works Vol 3
Berlin Deutsches Symphony Orchestra | Łukasz Borowicz
Premiered at a concert conducted by Wilhelm Stenhammar in Stockholm in 1899, when Alfvén was 27, the second of the...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: AW22
Tenebrae: Symphonic Psalms and Prayers
BBC Symphony Orchestra | David Allsopp | Nigel Short | Tenebrae
There is a coarse and forthright authority to the composer-led first recordings of Chichester Psalms (CBS, 12/65) and Symphony of...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2018
Piers Lane Goes to Town
Very Superior Persons should skip this. The rest of us can sit back and enjoy it. Piers Lane’s booklet traces...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2013
Dowland: Lute Music and Dances
Many of today's most famous lutenists began with but abandoned the guitar; Bream has maintained a uniquely distinguished career with...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 11/1987
Piano Dances: Ravel; Shostakovich; Widmann (Anna Vinnitskaya)
Anna Vinnitskaya’s ‘Piano Dances’ uses Ravel’s two large-scale ‘Valse’ pieces to bookend a pair of stylised dance-based groups of miniatures...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2024
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