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Sueye Park: Salut d’amour
It’s interesting quite how many recording tributes to the late 19th and early 20th century’s great violinists have been appearing...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 03/2019
Arnold Orchestral Dances
Bryden Thomson | Philharmonia Orchestra
It was Malcolm Arnold's set of eight English Dances that in 1950-51 put him firmly on the musical map and...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/1990
Jussi Björling, Vol.2
These are both 'Bjorling, Vol. 2' for their respective companies. There is naturally a good deal of over-lapping (EMI's Vol....
Reviewed in issue 10/1993
Salut d'amour
Anne Akiko Meyers | Sandra Rivers
Your reaction to this programme will depend very much on what you expect from it. If you're primarily in search...
Reviewed in issue 4/1995
GUERRA-PEIXE Symphonic Suites No. 1 and 2. Roda de Amigos
César Guerra-Peixe (1914-93) was, as well as a prolific composer, a great promoter of Brazilian folk music, and carried out...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 10/2022
DVOŘÁK Symphony No 9
‘One that loved not wisely but too well.’ Othello’s self-assessment could apply to Andrés Orozco-Estrada’s account of Dvořák’s Ninth Symphony...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 05/2017
The Art of Piano
Here, in all their glory and individuality, are Rachmaninov, Moiseiwitsch, Edwin and Annie Fischer, Cziffra, Gilels et al, to remind...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 4/2000
Mozart Marches & Dances
Academy of St Martin in the Fields | Neville Marriner
When this collection of Mozart's marches and German dances arrived my first thought was that though the record was generous—as...
Reviewed in issue 3/1987
András Schiff: The V International Tchaikovsky Competition
András Schiff | Dmitri Kitaenko | Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra
Given his stature as a philosopher/pianist and his public comments disparaging piano contests, it is easy to forget that András...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2017
Heifetz - In Performance
Brooks Smith | Emanuel Bay | Jascha Heifetz | Malcolm Sargent | New Symphony Orchestra | Osian Ellis
Even by 1971 television standards this is amateurishly put together, the visual elements matched only by RCA’s dismal presentation. This...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 9/2005
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