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PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No 3 TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No 1

Behzod Abduraimov was an unknown 18-year-old when he won the 2009 London International Piano Competition with a sensational performance of...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue:

PICKARD Gaia Symphony. Eden

John Pickard’s hour long Fourth Symphony, composed in stages between 1991 and 2003, is scored for brass band. An hour-long...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2014

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

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