CD, Glinka (composer)
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A sizzling account of Borodin's Polovtsian Dances is the centrepiece here. Glinka's Ruslan and Lyudmila Overture is equally electrifying, yet there is tenderness, too, in Musorgsky's Khovanshchina... — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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hugely impressive in that you simply can't tell Sudbin's playing apart from that of his 12-year-old daughter Bella...I’d have been happy for a complete sequence of original Tchaikovsky pianism,... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2023, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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The Princess & The Bear
Laurence Perkins (bassoon) & Sarah Watts (clarinet), Martin Roscoe (piano)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Sian Edwards
Sian Edwards adopts relaxed speeds [in the Strauss], which gives the music space to breathe, and the RSNO sound consistently good throughout. Watts does ravishing things with the great clarinet... — More…
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Shura Cherkassky: The Complete 78rpm Recordings (1923-1950)
Shura Cherkassky (piano), Robert Lortat, Marcel Hubert, Santa Monica Symphony Orchestra, Jacques Rachmilovich
APR’s is the most comprehensive single collection and has, by a country mile, the best annotation, booklet (Jonathan Summers) and transfers (Seth B Winner)...evidence, if it were needed, of... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2023, Archive Issue of the Month
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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Special offer. Leopold Stokowski: Great Recordings from the BBC Legends Archive, Vol. 2
Berit Lindholm, Heather Harper (soprano), Helen Watts (contralto), Alexander Young, Donald McIntyre (bass)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Band of the Grenadier Guards, John Alldis Choir, Welsh National Opera Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, New Philharmonia Orchestra,...
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Special offer. Mikhail Glinka: Grand Sextet E-Flat Major; Antonín Dvořák: Piano Quintet A Major Op. 81
Haiou Zhang, Hába Quartett, Ioan Cristian Braica
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Hyperion's new release is full of music that mixes Chopinesque grace with Russian-bear grandiosity. Driver is the sort of pianist who can handle both, delivering performances of poise, power... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2011, Instrumental Choice
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Glinka: Spanish Overture No. 1 'Capriccio brillante on the Jota Aragonese', etc.
BBC Philharmonic, Vassily Sinaisky
This is a more comprehensive survey than that available on ASV with the Armenian Philharmonic under Loris Tjeknavorian. Both conductors include the two 'Spanish Overtures', the Valse-fantaisie... — More…
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To the gentlest songs… Rodgers brings as much gracefulness and subtlety as ever, and timbre as exquisitely fragrant and fine-grained. — More…
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Arnold van Mill sings Favourite Opera Arias
Decca Most Wanted Recitals Vol. 30
Arnold van Mill (bass), Raphael Arié (bass), Wilfred Parry (piano)
Robert Wagner
