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(La) Campanella - Favourite Piano Encores
I’d never come across the name of Patrick Rapold before and this disc produced two conflicting reactions. The programme is...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 13/2008
Recital - Nina Kotova
Constantine Orbelian | Moscow Chamber Orchestra | Nina Kotova
An unusual compilation. The arrangements of Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov and Glazunov at the start lead us to expect a mellow-cello album...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 4/2000
Alison Balsom - Trumpet Transcriptions
Alison Balsom | Edward Gardner | Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
One of Alison Balsom’s prime interests is to bring notoriety to solo trumpet music from within mainstream repertoire, not just...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 13/2006
Brahms arr Joachim Hungarian Dances; Joachim Variations
Twenty-one Hungarian Dances straight off, all in duple metre, doesn’t perhaps make the best programme; you may find, as I...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 8/2008
Adriaenssen Love Songs & Dances
Claudio Cavina | Liuto Concertato | Lutz Kirchhof | Marie-Claude Vallin | Max van Egmond
The pieces in this collection appeared in the Pratum musicum, a publication issued in 1584 by the Dutch lutenist and...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 8/1996
GOLDMARK Symphonic Poems, Vol 1
Bamberg Symphony Orchestra | Fabrice Bollon
Karl Goldmark seems to be having a bit of a moment right now, and so too – to judge from...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 01/2019
Liszt: Symphonic Poems
Hungarian State Orchestra | János Ferencsik
Perhaps it may be more helpful to comment in some detail on one of these pieces in the Haitink and...
Reviewed in issue 7/1985
Vocalise - Russian Romances
Mischa Maisky has recorded several of his ‘song’ recitals, in which a selection of French mélodies or German Lieder is...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 4/2006
MARTINÜ Bouquet of Flowers NOVÁK Philharmonic Dances
Martinů never heard a live performance of his folk cantata, or ‘cycle of compositions to folk texts’, Kytice (‘Bouquet of...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2018
Benno Moiseiwitsch
After Naxos’s lucky 13 discs of Moiseiwitsch comes a Testament three-CD album of previously unpublished recordings. Here, once more, you...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 09/2015
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