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BRAHMS Double Concerto VIOTTI Violin Concerto DVOŘÁK Silent Woods

The dedication on this album reads ‘In Memoriam Lars Vogt’ – and that gives it a special resonance. Christian Tetzlaff...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/2023

BARTÓK Piano Concertos (Pierre-Laurent Aimard)

In Pentatone’s accompanying notes Pierre-Laurent Aimard explains that he has ‘spent a lot of time with Hungarians and their country....

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2023

AARØEN, MANOTSKOV, BJØRKLUND 'Arctic Saxophone' (Ola Asdahl Rokkones)

In case of any doubt, the Arctic credentials of this delightful new release are impeccable. Saxophonist Ola Asdahl Rokkones, who...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2023

OFFENBACH La princesse de Trébizonde (Daniel)

A young man of more-than-usually sensitive disposition falls in love, not with a living, breathing girl but with a beautiful...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 11/2023

Between Breaths

I think I must be predisposed genetically towards music for percussion (hopefully in my next life I am fated to...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2023

JOHNSON De Organizer. The Dreamy Kid

Near the end of the last century, the US Post Office issued a commemorative stamp of the pianist and composer...

Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 11/2023

BALLARD The Four Moons

For their fourth Naxos album, Arkansas’s Fort Smith Symphony led by music director John Jeter turn their attention from Florence...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 11/2023

AZMEH 'Starlighter'

Ever since they formed nearly two decades ago, Brooklyn Rider have been reimagining the string quartet’s potential both in their...

Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 11/2023

STRAVINSKY Oedipus Rex (Gatti)

Given the way Daniele Gatti romanticises Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring (Sony, A/13; RCO Live, 4/18), you wouldn’t peg him...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: AW23

PURCELL Dido and Aeneas (Bates)

The domestic, small-scale associations of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas with a girls’ school in Chelsea cling persistently to the composer’s...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: AW23

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