Orchestral, Moyzes (composer)

You're no doubt familiar with George Gershwin, but Edward Burlingame Hill? Alexander Moyzes? No, me neither, but their jaunty, jazzy studies and sonatas get a new lease of life in this engaging... — The Observer, 17th October 2010More…

Compelled to Soviet-style ‘accessibility’; Slovakia’s Alexander Moyzes responded with music of genuine individuality. Decent Slovak Radio SO performances under Ladislav Slovák enhance the appeal. — BBC Music Magazine, September 2019, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

These Slovakian post-war symphonies juxtapose busy folk-inflected rhythmic energy with nostalgic Romantic expression. Committed playing from the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra under Ladislav... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2019, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

These two early-20th-century symphonies from one of Slovakia’s most important composers are lushly Romantic, big-boned works. Enjoyable stuff. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2018, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

This Slovakian composer’s idiom resembles a more modernistic, lower-octane Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 is the most convincing here. Decent, if rather earthbound Slovak Radio Symphony accounts. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2019, 3 out of 5 starsMore…