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It’s nice to hear Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1 in the company of his lesser-known Konzertstück (and not, as it often is, paired with the
Dimitri Kabalevsky’s First Piano Concerto owes a heck of a lot to Prokofiev’s Second–so much so that at times you might think you are listening
Japanese composer Shiro Fukai (1907-1959) writes fake Ravel, with varying degrees of success. The Four Parodies, a suite of movements evocative of Falla, Stravinsky, Ravel,
Akira Ifukube (b. 1914) is best known as the composer of the scores to the various Godzilla films. His Symphonic Fantasia No. 1 is in
This disc is a treat. “Kamikazi”, in case you are interested, means “wind of God” and refers to a civilian aircraft launched in 1938, and
This generously-filled disc presents more than 78 minutes of Dvorák orchestral miniatures, of which only Silent Woods is likely to be immediately recognized by most
Max Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy is the kind of piece that needs the first-class artistry of a virtuoso who possesses the extra “it” factor of star
Scherbakov and Yablonsky collaborate on a very good account of the Second Piano Concerto. The opening piano solo has the right chiming-bell quality, and both
This single-disc collection competes obliquely with two other fabulous recordings: Järvi’s older issue of the first three ballet suites on Chandos, and Kuchar’s three-disc box
Shostakovich’s film score to Hamlet is one of his finest, possibly because it’s a serious film rather than a socialist-realist potboiler, and the composer’s moody,
