Stárek; Jirí

CD From Hell: Stárek’s Mahler 7-Amateur Night At Czech Radio

David Hurwitz

Back in my college days when I played in the […]

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Bloch: Piano Music/Lin

David Hurwitz

Ernest Bloch’s Concerto symphonique is one of the 20th century’s great masterpieces for piano and orchestra, and this easily is its finest recording to date.

Shostakovich: Piano concertos/Uhlig

David Hurwitz

These are very clean, clear, adept performances of the two Shostakovich piano concertos. Florian Uhlig captures the brittle high-spirits of No. 1 very well, with

Slavonic Dances Hanssler C

David Hurwitz

The SWR Radio Orchestra Kaiserlautern is basically the “pops” ensemble of this far-flung broadcast conglomerate. Under the theoretically authentic Czech leadership of Jirí Stárek, they