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MACMILLAN; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Oboe Concertos

The Britten Sinfonia’s latest offering launches with a deeply understanding performance of Vaughan Williams’s Oboe Concerto from Nicholas Daniel. It...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 05/2015

BRAHMS Serenades

The swiftly pulsing violas and cellos that open Riccardo Chailly’s Gewandhaus Orchestra account of the First Serenade contradict what many...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2015

BIZET Roma Symphony. Overtures

Jean-Luc Tingaud’s generous Bizet selection kicks off with two rarities: both the imposing Marche funèbre in B minor from 1860...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 05/2015

BRITTEN; BARBER Piano Concertos

In many ways the Britten and Barber piano concertos make an attractive fit, sharing a similar bittersweet lyricism, though Britten...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 05/2015

BALADA Symphony No 6. Steel Symphony

The music of the Catalan-American composer Leonardo Balada has been well served by Naxos; this is the fifth recording of...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 05/2015

CPE BACH Symphonies

CPE Bach’s two sets of ‘Hamburg’ symphonies from the 1770s have long been famous for pushing the contemporary musical language...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2015

ABRAHAMSEN Four Pieces. Piano Concerto. Ten Studies

Danish composer Hans Abrahamsen was always one of Winter & Winter’s prized house-composers, and this latest instalment in the label’s...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 05/2015

JS BACH Sonatas and Partitas

All that is unusual and unexpected about this recording is encapsulated in the second movement of the First Sonata, which...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 04/2015

CHOPIN 1846: Last year at Nohant

The latest release from this highly praised duo works beautifully on several levels. First, the programme consists entirely of works...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2015

PROKOFIEV; SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Concertos

Prokofiev’s demanding, conceptually lopsided Cello Concerto, failed at the box office and has been little heard. Indeed, the only significant...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2015

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