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Honneger Symphonies and Symphonic Movements
Fabio Luisi | Suisse Romande Orchestra
Paul Sacher used to tell a story of Honegger conducting in rehearsal. At one point the first oboe put up...
Reviewed in issue 2/2002
Ferenc Fricsay - A life in music
It’s good to see Ferenc Fricsay’s star in the ascendant once again. Like EMI Classics/IMG Artists’ Gramophone Award-winning Great Conductors...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 13/2003
Liszt Symphonic Poems, Vol 5
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra | Gianandrea Noseda
Volume 5 of Liszt’s symphonic poems couples the Dante Symphony with the two Légendes heard here in Liszt’s own orchestral...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 8/2009
Josef Hofmann, Vol. 2
Curtis Institute Student Orchestra | Fritz Reiner | Ignace Hilsberg | Josef Hofmann
Anton Rubinstein, the leading pianist and piano teacher of his generation, declared that his pupil Josef Hofmann was ''the greatest...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 5/1993
Vladigerov Vardar; Traumspiel Suite; Bulgarian Dances
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra | Horia Andreescu
Despite his Mexican-sounding first name and Swiss birth, Pancho Vladigerov (1899-1978) was Bulgarian through and through. Largely forgotten outside his...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 9/2007
Eileen Joyce - The Parlophone Recordings
After a career that triumphed over unpromising circumstances, Eileen Joyce’s decision to retire from the concert platform while still in...
Reviewed in issue 9/1999
Arnold Orchestral Dances
London Philharmonic Orchestra | Malcolm Arnold
The late Trevor Harvey gave a warm and well-deserved welcome to the English, Scottish and Cornish Dances, when these recordings,...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/1990
Borodin Symphonies
Here choice might be dictated partly by one's individual priorities. If they are with full modern digital sound, then the...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 8/1991
Diepenbrock Symphonic Songs
(The) Hague Philharmonic Orchestra | Christoph Homberger | Hans Vonk | Linda Finnie | Robert Holl
I allowed myself a cautious 'if' and 'but' or two when welcoming the first volume of Chandos's bravely risk-taking Diepenbrock...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 4/1991
Pingoud Symphonic Poems
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra | Sakari Oramo
Ernest Pingoud (1887-1942) is one of those names one encounters in footnotes, or in the more comprehensive musical dictionaries. The...
Reviewed in issue 2/1998
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