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Tenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition: JonNakamatsu
Aviram Reichert | Jon Nakamatsu | Yakov Kasman
The Van Cliburn International Piano Competition may have attracted more than its fair share of opprobrium but the tenth event...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 3/1998
Voces8: Winter
Since its foundation in 2005 the British ensemble Voces8 has drawn glowing plaudits for the impeccable quality of its balance...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 12/2016
Pushkin Romances
Dmitri Hvorostovsky | Ivari Ilja
Here is yet another compilation of Russian Romances from a master purveyor of self-regarding baritonal syrup. This time Hvorostovsky offers...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 9/2010
MONTEVERDI 'Daylight. Stories of Songs, Dances and Loves'
In 2017 master of madrigals Rinaldo Alessandrini and Concerto Italiano ripped up the rulebook with ‘Night – Stories of Lovers...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2022
Brahms Hungarian Dances
Claudio Abbado | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Robert Layton praised the playing or the original issue for its ''freshness and enthusiam'' and indeed found many of the...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 8/1984
Life Force
Don’t judge this disc by its cover. The artwork is the usual moody monochrome of a young soloist in a...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 09/2018
Karlowicz Symphonic Poems
Jerzy Salwarowski | Silesian Philharmonic Orchestra
Thirteen years ago these recordings provided a more than welcome stop-gap for those of us keen to encounter one of...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 3/2004
Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition; Borodin Symphony No 2; Polovtsian Dances
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Simon Rattle
The issue here is musicality versus characterisation. Be in no doubt that Rattle and his orchestra treat us to a...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 7/2008
Tippett Divertimento on Sellinger's Round; Ritual Dances
To mark the Tippett centenary EMI Classics adds these three reissues to the pair of discs already available: vocal music...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 6/2005
Arcadi Volodos: Piano Transcriptions
Alerted to Arcadi Volodos’s calibre I hurried to London’s Wigmore Hall some months ago. I was not disappointed. Performing a...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/1997
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