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PANUFNIK Violin, Cello and Piano Concertos

This disc contains some of Panufnik’s most intriguing music. The three concertos come from a wide chronological span, the Piano...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 11/2014

OSWALD; NAPOLEÃO Piano Concertos

Allow me to introduce a couple of composers of whom not one in ten thousand, I guess, not even dedicated...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2014

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 18 & 19

In a sense the images on the front and back of the disc say it all: this is Mozart of...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2014

MAHLER Symphony No 5 (Chailly)

A 27-minute bonus feature finds Riccardo Chailly discussing his interpretation of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, a useful guide to both the...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2014

STANFORD; MILFORD Violin Concertos

Completed in August 1918 but mysteriously left in short score, Stanford’s Second Violin Concerto lasts just under half an hour...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2014

HAYDN Symphonies Nos 98 & 103

Well over halfway through his cycle by now, Thomas Fey alights on two ‘London’ Symphonies, one from each of Haydn’s...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2014

MOZART Piano Concerto No 5 HAYDN Piano Concerto No 18

Alexander Tharaud dives vigorously into the piano’s unexpected entrance just a few bars into the orchestral ritornello of Mozart’s Jeunehomme...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2014

HANDEL Piano Concertos Nos 13 - 16

Chronologically, these four concertos come between the first set of concertos published in 1738 as Op 4 (Nos 1 6)...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2014

GUINJOAN Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra

Born in 1931, Joan Guinjoan is one of Catalonia’s most distinguished composers, having been part of the establishment of what...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 11/2014

GOEBBELS Suite for Sampler and Orchestra

Yet a further outfit intent on ringing the changes, the Norwegian Radio Orchestra juxtaposes works by figures who are not...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2014

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