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Brahms 21 Hungarian Dances
Georges Prêtre | Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra
Georges Pretre has been honorary guest conductor of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra since 1995 and he brings a touch...
Reviewed in issue 3/1998
HINDEMITH Symphony 'Mathis der Maler'. Symphonic Metamorphosis
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra | Martyn Brabbins
The usual coupling for the Mathis Symphony and Symphonic Metamorphosis is the Nobilissima visione suite, though the Trauermusik and other...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2014
Bax Symphonic Variations
Ashley Wass | Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra | James Judd
Composed between 1916 and 1918, and premiered at Queen’s Hall in November 1920 under Henry Wood, the Symphonic Variations for...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 6/2009
Horowitz Piano Roll Recordings
Sergey Prokofiev | Vladimir Horowitz
By the time Vladimir Horowitz died, he had become the Grand Old Man of Golden-Age pianism. But one easily forgets...
Reviewed in issue 7/1993
Büttner Symphonic Works
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra | Gerhard Pflüger | Hans-Peter Frank
Paul Büttner (1870-1943) is a largely forgotten figure now, earning only token entries even from German music dictionaries. In the...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 5/2003
Masterpieces in Miniature
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra | Yuja Wang
‘This recording pays homage to the tradition of these pieces,’ says Michael Tilson Thomas in an introduction to this 12-item...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 07/2015
Legendary Performers - Paderewski
Outwardly, Paderewski remains an enduring legend. The concert pianist who was also Prime Minister of his native Poland, the glamorous...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 3/1993
Mahler Symphonic Movements
Bamberg Symphony Orchestra | Karl Anton Rickenbacher
The idea of a record of Mahlerian symphonic fragments has its attractions but possibly more in a planning conference than...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/1989
Hans Rosbaud - The Complete recordings on DG
The complete list of recordings by Hans Rosbaud, published in 1992, runs to an astonishing 854 items. True, most of...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/2004
Nicholas McCarthy - Solo
Nicholas McCarthy is unique in music history in being the first person born without a right arm to make a...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2015
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