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Russian Sketches

David Zinman has nurtured his Baltimore orchestra into a splendidly balanced ensemble. The strings have a rich veneer and produce...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/1995

Larsen Symphony 4 & Songs

Libby Larsen, a pupil of Dominick Argento, is a familiar figure on the American musical scene, less so over here....

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2000

Chicago Concert - Kalevi Kiviniemi

This Franco-Finnish programme works well. Kiviniemi (b.1958) is a persuasive player though he favours heavy (and, at times, muddled) registrations....

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 2/1999

Haydn Die Schöpfung

Two more re-Creations: one which is something of a red herring in Haydn's great deep, and one which has been...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 3/1991

Dvorák Works for Violin & Orchestra

Once neglected on record, the Dvorak Violin Concerto is now well represented in the CD catalogue, and though neither of...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/1991

Chopin Works for Piano and Orchestra

As far as I am aware Ashkenazy has never recorded any of the works in this collection. So here he...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 7/1996

Mozart: Orchestral works

An outstanding reissue from Marriner's vintage period with the Academy, made soon after he had moved from Argo to Philips....

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 7/1985

Shostakovich Orchestral Works

Enrique Batiz's account of the Fifth is good value and, for the Shostakovich enthusiast, almost indispensable for the sake of...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 9/1990

Cardoso Missa Miserere mihi Domine; Magnificat

I wonder what the seventeenth-century Portuguese composer Manuel Cardoso(1566-1650), for most of his life a monk at a Carmelite monastery...

Reviewed in issue 5/1997

Kálmán (Die) Csárdásfürstin

The English title of Kálmán’s most celebrated operetta is a misnomer. The heroine is a princess not of gypsies but...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 3/2005

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