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Dances & Dreams
Rattle, Kissin, the Berlin Phil, New Year’s Eve: a delightful prospect – and viewable, by means of this DVD or...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2012
'Concertos'
Flute concertos gathered together can produce a certain sameness of texture (as in Vivaldi), although not perhaps in the hands...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/2012
American Serenade
Carmen and Porgy and Bess are both dramatic scores full of rich pickings for any arranger for orchestra with a...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 12/2012
WALLACE Piano Works
The bicentenary of William Vincent Wallace (1812-65) has drawn deserved attention to a neglected British composer. A new biography documents...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 12/2012
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphonies Nos 1 - 3
Like Herbert von Karajan, Valery Gergiev has recorded Tchaikovsky’s last three symphonies on so many occasions that it must be...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2012
SIBELIUS Symphony No 5 STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring
In the mid-1960s the BBC broadcast three orchestral programmes under the pessimistic title The Symphonic Twilight, which afforded the first...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2012
RAVEL Orchestral Works Vol 1
Gentle languor, as expressed in the Pavane pour une infante défunte and the nocturnal shadows in the first movement of...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 12/2012
RACHMANINOV Symphony No 2. Dances from Aleko
Early Rachmaninov meets mature Rachmaninov with the two dances and intermezzo from his student opera Aleko of 1892 and the...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 12/2012
PROKOFIEV Symphonies Nos 5 & 6
Not since the mid-1990s, when Praga paired Serge Baudo in No 5 with an incendiary No 6 from the Leningrad...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2012
The Romantic Piano Concerto 58 - Pixis & Thalberg
Hyperion’s ‘The Romantic Piano Concerto’ celebrates is 58th issue with these concertos including a first recording of Pixis’s Concertino in...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2012
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Review - Christoph von Dohnányi in Cleveland
Jed Distler hails a desirable box-set documenting the maestro’s 18-year tenure in Ohio
Review - Eloquence’s Piano Library
Jeremy Nicholas browses through two collections of keyboard treasures
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Speakers with onboard amplification make plenty of sense if you want high performance without all...
Review - Sergei Rachmaninoff: In His Own Words (Edited by Geoffrey Norris)
‘This is an altogether absorbing volume, as valuable and enlightening as it is original and...
Review - Audiolab 9000N: ‘A major achievement on many levels’
This flagship player eschews the technology of the company’s other models for a clean sheet...
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