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Ole Edward Antonsen | Wayne Marshall
Ole Edvard Antonsen came to my attention, initially, in an accomplished disc of trumpet concertos with the English Chamber Orchestra...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/1994
George Li: Live at the Mariinsky
A photograph of the 2015 International Tchaikovsky Competition silver medallist on the disc cover shows a young man looking into the camera...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2017
Tzimon Barto: Paganini Variations, Paganini Rhapsody
Christoph Eschenbach | Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival Orchestra | Tzimon Barto
All six Grandes Etudes de Paganini are a comparative rarity on disc. Gary Graffman’s 1959 traversal (Sony, 4/65) is brilliantly...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2014
Ingolf Wunder: 300
Is it just a coincidence that this semi-pops recital from Ingolf Wunder features many works both closely associated with and...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2013
Kaleidoscope
Whatever enchants‚ teases and outrages is offered here in a cornucopia of encores tailormade to delight those who revel in...
Reviewed in issue 12/2001
Rostropovich Encores
Alban Gerhardt | Markus Becker | Mstislav Rostropovich
Having released a hugely enjoyable Casals encores recording (Hyperion, 9/11), Alban Gerhardt is now back with Rostropovich encores. The first...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2017
SCHUMANN Complete Symphonic Works, Vol 6
With this sixth and final volume in his series of the ‘Complete Symphonic Works’, Heinz Holliger mops up the remaining...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2016
St Peter's Singers: One Equal Music
This impressively wide collection of pieces comes from the formidable Leeds-based choir, the St Peter’s Singers, recording in Frank Matcham’s...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 05/2015
Tchaikovsky and his Circle
The title is a reasonable one, for the younger five composers here were Tchaikovsky's musical friends as well as known...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 4/1994
The Swan - Cello Encores
Felix Slatkin | Han-Na Chang | Leonard Slatkin | Philharmonia Orchestra
I gave the highest praise to the phenomenally gifted Han-Na Chang’s first CD (which included a glorious account of Tchaikovsky’s...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/2000
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