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BARTÓK Divertimento GHEDINI Violin Concerto
(I) Solisti Aquilani | Daniele Orlando | Flavio Emilio Scogna | Francesco Fiore
This interesting programme offers a revealing glimpse at how the Baroque concerto grosso form, or something very like it, was...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2016
BERNSTEIN Serenade KORNGOLD Violin Concerto
Christian Vásquez | Het Gelders Orkest | Jirí Malát | Liza Ferschtman | Prague Symphony Orchestra
Liza Ferschtman’s Mendelssohn coupling (5/17) sounded astonishingly fresh but her mid-20th-century follow-up is something of a curate’s egg: two more...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2018
MAHLER Symphony No 7 (Vänskä)
Minnesota Orchestra | Osmo Vänskä
I might have predicted that this of all the Mahler symphonies would chime with Osmo Vänskä’s very particular gifts as...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 09/2020
Stephan Orchestral Works
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra | Oleg Caetani | Sergei Stadler
Rudi Stephan (1887-1915) remains one of 20th-century music’s most tantalising ‘might have beens’. Before his death aged just 28 in...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 1/2006
Creation
Lockenhaus Artists | Nicolas Altstaedt
Hard to believe Lockenhaus is now into its fifth decade but this festival, founded in 1981 by Gidon Kremer and...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 10/2022
JS BACH The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 (Andreas Staier)
The recorded repertory of the prolific German harpsichordist and pianist Andreas Staier spans the Baroque through Brahms. His Book 2...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 02/2023
Mozart Piano Concertos
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Daniel Barenboim
How time passes! It doesn't seem so long ago that Daniel Barenboim made his name as a young master of...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 11/1992
Loewe Lieder & Balladen, Vol 12
Dominating this 12th volume of an uneven but very rewarding series are two groups of songs. Loewe's Heine Liederkreis of...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1999
Bach/Vivaldi Orchestral Works
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra | Thomas Hengelbrock
The Freiburg Baroque Orchestra score ten out of ten for vitality in their pleasingly varied programme of pieces by Bach...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 4/1994
Hindemith Mathis der Maler
It has become axiomatic to see in Mathis der Maler a parable of the times, with Hindemith using the turbulent...
Reviewed in issue 9/1994
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