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MOZART Piano Concerto No 24 BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No 3

Even if the catalogue was in a less parlous state than it currently is where recordings of Beethoven’s Third Piano...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 05/2014

ENESCU Symphonie Concertante BARTÓK Divertimento

If there’s one significant composer who needs a little help from his friends, it’s George Enescu. And by ‘friends’ I...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2014

JS BACH Violin Concertos BWV1041 & 4102 VASKS Violin Concerto

The name of Renaud Capuçon is not the first that would spring to mind when searching for recordings of Bach’s...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 05/2014

JS BACH Brandenburg Concertos

The Brandenburgs are billed here as music ‘open as ever to new historically informed interpretations, as this set demonstrates’, so...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 05/2014

ANDREAE Symphony. Li-Tai-Pe. Concertino for Oboe

This Guild series devoted to the Swiss conductor-composer Volkmar Andreae (1879-1962) is proving so comprehensive that it’s not always easy...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2014

LYAPUNOV Piano Works

The young Belgian pianist Florian Noack devotes Volume 1 of what promises to be the complete solo piano music of...

Reviewed in issue 03/2014

Wolfgang Holzmair: Wunderhornlieder

Early in the 19th century Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano assembled the Knaben Wunderhorn collection of German folk poems,...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2014

Music for Passiontide

Clare College Choir’s recording of music for Passiontide, interspersed with the plainchant Stabat mater dolorosa text, is not only a...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 04/2014

Tenebrae: Russian Treasures

Like buses, CD releases often come in batches. No sooner had the sound of Conspirare’s low basses stopped reverberating after...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 04/2014

Joy & Sorrow Unmasked: Arias and Orchestral works by Bach and Handel

DVD recordings of concerts do not always promise the most exciting of visual spectacles, especially when filmed in an auditorium...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2014

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