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KABALEVSKY Cello Concerto PROKOFIEV Cello Sonata

Leonard Elschenbroich pulls together this unusual programme of Soviet fare with his own intelligent and provocative booklet-note. He portrays Dmitry...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 02/2015

HAYDN; TOMASI; KAIPAINEN Trumpet Concertos

Pasi Pirinen is the Principal Trumpet for both the Helsinki Philharmonic and Avanti! Chamber orchestras, as well as a prize-winning...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2015

MOZART Oboe Concerto K314 HAYDN Sinfonia Concertante

One definition of Allegro aperto, the direction in the first movement of the Oboe Concerto, reads ‘an allegro with broad,...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 02/2015

Simone Dinnerstein: Broadway-Lafayette

Broadway-Lafayette is a New York City subway station in Manhattan, so someone will have to explain to me its relevance...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2015

FALLA Noches en los jardines de Espana. El sombrero de tres picos

Having recorded the piano music of his fellow countrymen Soler and Granados (4/12), Luis Fernando Pérez now turns his attention...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 02/2015

DVOŘÁK Symphonies Nos 4 & 8

Marcus Bosch is at his best in the lyrical second subject of the Fourth Symphony’s finale, which has something of...

Reviewed in issue AW2014

BROUWER; VILLA-LOBOS; KOSHKIN Guitar Concertos

For guitarist/composers such as these three, writing for guitar and orchestra is always a dialectical process. On the one hand,...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 02/2015

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 9 'Choral'

Every culture gets the Beethoven Ninth it deserves. This is not the Ninth to pair with A Survivor from Warsaw,...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 02/2015

JS BACH Orchestral Suites BWV1066-9

In a note appended to this exceptional version of the Suites – performed by single players at a lower pitch,...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2015

JS BACH Concertos for Oboe and Oboe d'Amore

Gonzalez X Ruiz and Monica Huggett apply long-established scholarly theories that Bach must presumably have written oboe concertos, now lost,...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2015

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