Orchestral, Symphonic Poems, Balakirev (composer)
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[Scheherazade] is a work that well demonstrates the orchestra's virtues, which include not only a fine set of principals who have their individual voices in the brighly hued scoring but an overall... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th August 2014
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2014
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The Romantic Piano Concerto (1991 - 2007 Edition)
Featuring pianists including Stephen Hough, Seta Tanyel, Piers Lane, Nikolai Demidenko, Martin Roscoe, Howard Shelley, Peter Donohoe, Marc-André Hamelin and Steven Osborne
Is this handsomely produced box-set worth acquiring? As a work of art alone, yes! If you have not encountered these works before, do not hesitate. Dip in anywhere and you will be rewarded. Assuming... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2026, Editor's Choice
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[Gergiev] bring[s] out Rimsky's crystalline solo textures, such as the passages for solo cello, horn and woodwinds in the first movement. And if tempos are slow in the first three movements,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2002, Editor's Choice
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Balakirev: Symphony No. 2 & Symphonic Poem 'Russia'
Russian State Symphony Orchestra, Igor Golovschin
An excellent way of getting to know some of the most colourful scores of the late 19th-century St. Petersburg school. —
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Iindeed this is quite the finest orchestral account of Islamey I have ever heard. —
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Svetlanov and his Moscow musicians are at their best in these red-blooded and characterful performances of three colourful scores, with Tamara – dramatic and luscious – the best available. —
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It is essentially a snapshot of Kent Nagano and his Montreal orchestra…the performances [are] for the most part smart and stylish…Tamara comes off best: Nagano generates a wonderfully gloomy... —
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Tchaikovsky - Piano Concertos
Gary Graffman (piano)
The Philadelphia Orchestra & Cleveland Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy & George Szell
Plush accounts of the concertos, especially of Nos 2 and 3, with the Philadelphia under Ormandy almost deliquescent. —
