CD, Rimsky Korsakov (composer)
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Special offer. Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
RecommendedBorusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra, Sascha Goetzel
[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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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 & Rimsky-Korsakov: Kitezh Suite
RecommendedLondon Symphony Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda
Noseda’s pacing leads us to the heavenly kingdom of Fevroniya and her beloved Vsevolod, killed in battle with the marauding Tatars, with a natural ease that creates the innocent sense of wonder... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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Tchaikovsky: Orchestral Suite No. 3 - Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol - Tcherepnin: La Princesse Lointaine
NDR Radiophilharmonie, Stanislav Kochanovsky
Stanislav Kochanovsky is a seriously good conductor...This is his debut disc. Playing to his strengths, it’s all Russian repertoire but, apart from Rimsky-Korsakov’s Capriccio espagnol, ebulliently... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2025, Editor's Choice
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Three Russian Piano Concertos by Pabst, Rimsky Korsakov and Scriabin
Oleg Marshev
South Jutland Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Ziva
This is Oleg Marshev's finest disc since his stylish accounts of the two Shostakovich concertos. The sound is as crisp and clean as the performances. —
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2008, Orchestral Choice
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Keeping things very much 'en famille', virtually everything on the CD owes a debt to the musical heritage of Notre Dame; and if that wasn't enough to justify the pedestrian-seeming programme,... —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2025, Instrumental Choice
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Rachmaninoff - Tchaikovsky
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 - Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker
Nobuyuki Tsujii (piano), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Domingo Hindoyan
Pianophiles will no doubt want to hear this recording and even listeners less focused on keyboard expertise will find a lot to enjoy. But Tsujii remains a brilliant performer who has yet to... —
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'excellence’ doesn’t begin to do him justice. The grace and refinement of his playing seemed preternatural, a kind of perfection to which many pianists aspire but few attain – and none with... —
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Special offer. Stravinsky: The Firebird & Rimsky-Korsakov: Le Coq d'Or
RecommendedRoyal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
Petrenko’s preference for slow tempos over flexible drama might make for fidgety audiences in the concert hall…It just about works on CD, and then all hell’s let loose in perfectly-balanced... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Presto Recording of the Week, 14th December 2018
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Müller-Schott is sympathetic and perfectly satisfying in his own way, until you hear, say, Glazunov’s elegiac Chant du ménestrel from Rostropovich, who goes beyond Romantic plaintiveness into... —
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Close Harmony
Patrick Dunachie (countertenor), Edward Button (countertenor), Julian Gregory (tenor), Christopher Bruerton (baritone), Nick Ashby (baritone), Jonathan Howard (bass-baritone), Misha Mullov-Abbado (double bass), Liam Dunachie, King's Singers
It’s certainly a generous helping and there is no denying the artistry of both the singers and arrangers. It’s a heady mix from ‘Crocodile Rock’ to The Barber of Seville, though the highlight... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2024
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