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RACHMANINOV Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 3

‘The most dazzlingly, uncannily gifted pianist in the concert world today joins forces with “magician-maestro” Gustavo Dudamel,’ trumpet the critics,...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 02/2014

MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition

Another take on Mussorgsky’s Pictures – and it would seem that the Slovak Peter Breiner (b1957) doesn’t do things by...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 02/2014

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 19, 20, 23 & 27

Even in an age when Mozart’s final concerto seems to be shedding its valedictory associations, Ronald Brautigam’s approach to the...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2014

MENDELSSOHN Symphonies Nos 4 & 5

Mendelssohn performed in Birmingham several times during the 1830s and ’40s – Elijah was composed for the Birmingham Festival –...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2014

LIGETI Violin Concerto. San Francisco Polyphony

The arrow-driven harmonic certainties of Jonathan Nott and the Berlin Philharmonic (in Teldec’s Ligeti Project, 8/02 – nla) get straight...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 02/2014

KENDLINGER Symphony No 1, 'Manipulation'

Little known in the UK, Matthias Georg Kendlinger (b1964) enjoys a significant profile in parts of Western and Central Europe...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2014

HAYDN; HUMMEL; NERUDA Trumpet Concertos

To release a disc of the three ‘standard’ and, let’s face it, only chromatic Classical-period trumpet concertos requires some kind...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 02/2014

HANDEL Six Keyboard Concertos, Op 4 HWV289-94

For some of us, Handel’s Organ Concertos Opp 4 and 7 are among music’s greatest pleasures. What, though, do they...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2014

GRAUPNER Orchestral Suites

Reviewing a recent CD containing among other things a suite by Christoph Graupner for recorder and strings (Dacapo, A/13), I...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2014

SAINT-SAËNS Piano Concerto No 2 GOSS Piano Concerto

The two bits of bread and butter in this musical sandwich are Saint-Saëns’s Second Piano Concerto and Franck’s Variations symphoniques....

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2014

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