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LUTOSŁAWSKI Piano Concerto. Symphony No 2

Commissioned by the 1988 Salzburg Festival and first performed by dedicatee Krystian Zimerman, Lutosawski’s Piano Concerto serves up a wealth...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2015

HARTMANN Concerto Funèbre WEINBERG Concertino

Linus Roth follows up on his impressive coupling of Weinberg and Britten concertos with some equally deserving mid-20th-century concertante works,...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 09/2015

GRIEG; MOSZKOWSKI Piano Concertos

Whatever scintillates and delights is here in super-abandance. For brilliant pianist (and later spin-master for Benjamin Netanyahu) David Bar-Illan, the...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 09/2015

GRIEG Piano Concerto

Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor was the first concerto ever to be recorded (Wilhelm Backhaus, heavily abridged). That was...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2015

GLASS Symphony No 10. Concert Overture

The background to Glass’s Tenth Symphony is unusual. It was originally performed by the Philip Glass Ensemble to accompany the...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 09/2015

BRUCKNER Symphony No 9

The performing versions by William Carragan and Samale-Phillips-Cohrs-Mazzuca of the incomplete fourth movement of Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony may be the...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 07/2015

BRAHMS Piano Quartet Op 25

The same label, conductor and orchestra recently produced a discreet and unmannered recording of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony (6/15). Are those...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2015

BRAHMS Piano Concertos

There is no musician before the public today with a more complete knowledge of the Brahms piano concertos than Daniel...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 09/2015

BARTÓK Violin Concerto No 2. Concerto for Orchestra

A great idea, this, coupling what are surely Bartók’s two greatest non-theatre large-scale orchestral works on a single CD, both...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2015

ELGAR; ARNOLD; SIMPSON Quartets Arranged for Strings

In 2004 David Matthews made an arrangement for string orchestra of the wonderfully tender and fragrantly poetic Piacevole centrepiece from...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2015

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