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Beethoven;Chopin;Haydn Piano Works
BBC Legends are unstinting where Sviatoslav Richter is concerned and this twoCD set is taken from recitals given between 196769...
Reviewed in issue 5/2002
Humoresque Favourite Violin Encores
Columbia Symphony Orchestra | Frank Brieff | Isaac Stern | Milton Katims
I am not quite sure what ''Humoresque'' actually means; but although it certainly serves for identification, it only doubtfully describes...
Reviewed in issue 7/1990
Dvorák Symphony No.9; 3 Slavonic Dances
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra | Leonard Bernstein
This is the first account of Dvorak's New World to exceed the 50-minute barrier, and that statistic is the more...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/1989
Hungarian Dances
Claire Désert | Hebe Mensinga | Philippe Graffin | Szymon Marciniak | Tom Eisner
The title has a particular significance - Philippe Graffin acted as “violin consultant” for Jessica Duchen’s novel, Hungarian Dances and...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 2/2009
Western Poets in Russian Music, Volume 1
Eleonora Bekova | Sergei Larin
Try not to be put off by the Mills and Boon title and cover (overleaf): there is an intelligent idea...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 8/2000
Chromosphere: Symphonic Colours of the Woodwind Orchestra
Czech Philharmonic Wind Ensemble | Shea Lolin
Subtitled ‘symphonic colours of the woodwind orchestra’, Divine Art’s ‘Chromosphere’ is an engaging collection of attractive new works – all...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2024
The Russian Album: Rachmaninov, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Shchedrin
It’s not just Yuja Wang whose encores threaten to steal the show. Christoph Croisé and Alexander Panfilov’s ‘Russian Album’ is...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2020
Nina Koshetz
Nina Koshetz | Odarka Trifonieva Sprishevskaya
Koshetz was one of the most individual and eloquent sopranos to come out of Russia after the 1917 revolution. Bringing...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/2007
Beethoven: Dances
Academy of St Martin in the Fields | Neville Marriner
Twenty-four short dances in three-time followed by 12 more in 2/4 hardly make an ideal record for continuous listening, but...
Reviewed in issue 4/1985
Cage Sixteen Dances
Ensemble Modern | Ingo Metzmacher
Cage's Sixteen Dances (1951), for Merce Cunningham's choreography, are a missing link in his still-growing representation on CD. The Ensemble...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 4/1995
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