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WEINBERG Chamber Symphonies Nos 3 & 4

Mieczysπaw Weinberg’s time would certainly seem to be now. Advocacy plays a big part in that, of course, and recent...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 02/2015

STRAVINSKY Concerto for Piano and Wind Orchestra. Capriccio. Movements

Stravinsky was a more than capable pianist, having been given rigorous training by a distinguished teacher, Leokadia Kashperova, who in...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 02/2015

SUSLIN 1756. Grenzübertritt GUBAIDULINA So sei es

This disc supplements the recent BIS release of instrumental music by Sofia Gubaidulina (A/14). So sei es – a 20-minute...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 02/2015

MOZART Così fan tutte

Like Nikolaus Harnoncourt, René...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2015

KHACHATURIAN; PROKOFIEV Piano Concertos

Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto has never been more popular but for her second concerto collaboration on disc the young Armenian-born...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 02/2015

Grigory Sokolov: The Salzburg Recital

Good news for pianophiles everywhere that Grigory Sokolov has, as DG put it, now signed an exclusive contract. This is...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2015

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Pastoral Symphony. Fantasia on a Theme by Tallis

This is, to my mind, the finest volume yet in Sir Mark Elder’s unfolding Vaughan Williams cycle with the Hallé....

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 02/2015

JS BACH English Suites Nos 1, 3 & 5

This is a glorious disc. Simply glorious. Anderszewski and Bach have long been congenial bedfellows and the Pole’s playing here...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2015

Sol Gabetta: Prayer

Sol Gabetta tells us in her notes that the title of her disc, ‘Prayer’, comes from her familiarity and identification...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 01/2015

KOTCHEFF gone into night are all the eyes

Any chamber music recording that’s so forward-looking that the reward at the end is Ives’s Piano Trio deserves automatic respect....

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 02/2015

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