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After excellent accounts for Naxos of Tchaikovsky’s First and Third piano concertos, Konstantin Scherbakov and Dmitry Yablonsky offer an even finer sequel. Indeed, this performance
This disc offers the premiere of the complete score to Michail Tsekhanovsky’s projected animated film of Pushkin’s short story The Tale of the Priest and
It’s so easy today to get superior quality at a low price in the classical music world, but this isn’t one of those times. For
This is a surprisingly fine performance of the Leningrad Symphony. Dmitry Yablonsky and his orchestra barely put a foot wrong, and the only quibble I
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
