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Marina Mescheriakova sings Soprano Arias
Marina Mescheriakova | Michael Halász | Slovak Philharmonic Chorus | Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
Naxos knows what it is doing by placing the two Russian items and Elisabetta’s scena at the head of Marina...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/2004
Lydia Mordkovitch - Tribute to David Oistrakh
Clifford Benson | James Kirby | Lydia Mordkovitch | Marina Gusak-Grin | Nicholas Walker
Designed like a recital programme, this CD is formed of items recorded between 1986 and 2008. The Locatelli Sonata, in...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 12/2010
Orchestrations by Sir Henry Wood
London Philharmonic Orchestra | Nicholas Braithwaite
In 1929 Sir Henry Wood, fearing from past experience that any Bach arrangement of his would be singled out for...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 11/2007
Smetana Complete Czech Dances
Smetana wrote his Czech Dances in part as a kind of 'answer' to Dvorak's Slavonic Dances, but the outcome is...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 6/1991
Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Benno Moiseiwitsch
Benno Moiseiwitsch | Hugo Rignold | Philharmonia Orchestra
Benno Moiseiwitsch possessed a charm and wizardry that could neither be taught nor confined within received notions of musical wisdom....
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/1999
Horowitz Piano Recital (from Piano Rolls)
In the current wave of researches into the archives (so much to be welcomed if we are to establish artistic...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 11/1989
Horowitz plays Chopin, Vol.1
The three reissues listed above contain so many vintage performances that I will not take up too much space in...
Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 9/1990
Pletnev - Live at Carnegie Hall
The billed recital was the Bach-Busoni transcription, the Beethoven Sonata Op 111 and the Chopin Scherzos, and the rest –...
Reviewed in issue 5/2001
Aida Garifullina
Aida Garifullina | Cornelius Meister | Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
If your name is Aida, then soprano is a pretty savvy career path. Indeed, Decca is marketing Kazan-born Aida Garifullina...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2017
David Childs: The Symphonic Euphonium II
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra | Ben Gernon | David Childs
Vaughan Williams wrote his Concerto in F minor for bass tuba and orchestra for Philip Catelinet, who gave the premiere...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 02/2020
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