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Franck Symphonic Variations
Bertrand Chamayou | Olivier Latry | Royal Scottish National Orchestra | Stéphane Denève
Don’t let the pouting profile of Bertrand Chamayou that adorns the cover of this disc deter you (why do so...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 9/2010
Johnson The Symphonic Music
It’s entirely apt that James P Johnson – the most historically significant musician of the 1920s Harlem Renaissance; composer and...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 12/2011
FALLA Noches en los jardines de España FRANCK Symphonic Variations
Kenneth Woods | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Valerie Tryon
Throughout her long and distinguished, if insufficiently acknowledged career, Valerie Tryon has remained true to her own lights. Virtuoso teasers...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 09/2013
R. Strauss Symphonic Poems
Herbert Blomstedt | San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
The massive opening to Zarathustra raises expectations of a reading strong on weight and rhetoric. These, it quickly becomes apparent,...
Reviewed in issue 7/1998
Legato - The World of the Piano
Marc-André Hamelin | Roland Pöntinen
Go into the DVD section of any classical music store and it is awash with opera. To the seasoned pianophile...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 3/2008
Mozart Overtures, Dances & Marches
Hans Graf | Hans Vonk | Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra | Staatskapelle Dresden
The first of these three discs contains 11 operatic overtures representing a surprising variety of music, ranging from the profundities...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 10/1991
Liszt Symphonic Poems, Vol 3
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra | Gianandrea Noseda
No one could accuse Liszt of a lack of largesse. And listening to Vol 3 in Chandos’s recordings of the...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 7/2007
Themes and Variations (Guy Johnston, Tom Poster)
Guy Johnston | James Gilchrist
It takes a particularly selfless kind of cellist to begin a recital with Beethoven’s Bei Männern Variations. Donald Tovey once...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2019
STEFFANI Stabat Mater, Dances & Overtures
The proclamation that Cecilia Bartoli ‘continues her Mission to discover the music of Agostino Steffani’ might lead an unsuspecting public...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2013
Dances from the Heart of Europe
(I) Musici de Montreal | Yuli Turovsky
‘Dances from the Heart of Europe’ says the title, and the geographical spread from Vienna to Yerevan makes this an...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 13/2003
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