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PROKOFIEV Symphonies Nos 3 & 7

This is not the first distinguished Onyx release from the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and its young Ukrainian conductor but it...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2014

PANUFNIK Symphony No 5. Bassoon Concerto

The Sinfonia di Sfere, Panufnik’s Fifth, is of course the main attraction here. It’s a complex work architecturally, the ‘spheres’...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 06/2014

BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 4

My reaction when asked to review this disc was a somewhat uncritical ‘hurray’, having immensely enjoyed the first volume of...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2014

La bella più bella: Songs from early baroque Italy

The songs and madrigals of early-17th-century Italy are dramatic microcosms – arias from unwritten operas that carry the emotional and...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 06/2014

JS BACH Lutheran Masses Vol II

One of the most durable virtues of Harry Christophers and The Sixteen is the unfussy fluency of their musical endeavour...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 06/2014

WAGNER Siegfried. Götterdämmerung

Daniel Barenboim’s celebration of the Wagner bicentenary culminated in the completion of a new Ring cycle, produced by Guy Cassiers,...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 06/2014

Mahan Esfahani: Byrd, Bach, Ligeti

A critic reviewing Mahan Esfahani’s 2013 Wigmore Hall recital of short pieces by Byrd, Bach and Ligeti (from which this...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2014

HAYDN String Quartet Op 51, The Seven Last Words of Christ

The solemnities of Good Friday, enshrined with such intensity and contemplative sincerity by Haydn in his Seven Last Words, are...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 06/2014

BRAHMS Complete Music for Cello and Piano

There are a few contemporary arrangements on these discs which render the title ‘Complete Works for Cello and Piano’ possibly...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 06/2014

BEETHOVEN Cello Sonatas and Variations

A cellist who tends towards introversion; a fortepianist who tends the other way. Put them together and something magical happens...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 02/2014

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