Browse: Russian Philharmonic Orchestra (orchestra)

Moscow-born Shorena Tsintsabadze gives direct, well-schooled accounts of all three works — Gramophone Magazine, February 2011 More…

Satire of various hues is the running theme on this disc devoted mainly to songs from Shostakovich's embittered last 15 years. These have been orchestrated with a faultless grasp of the idiom... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Though the Scottish Fantasy, with its wealth of traditional melodies, ripely presented, is firmly based in the repertory, most of Bruch's other concertante works for violin are largely unknown.... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

[The First] is a haunting elegy in a single movement. Although written for only 11 instruments, its expressive scale and remarkable sense of structure more than justify the title of symphony...Pavlova... — Matthew Shorter, bbc.co.uk, 29th December 2003 More…

The ballroom scenes are remarkable, particularly the second, in which chiming clocks count down the minutes to the murder, and the dance music distorts as Arbenin becomes increasingly anxious.... — The Guardian, 24th July 2009 More…

Unlike many film composers whose concert music often fails to convince, Rózsa understood that writing in abstract demanded a different approach, not least in placing his melodic genius at the... — Gramophone Magazine More…