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HAYDN Symphonies Nos 6 & 82. Violin Concerto HobVIIa/4

This is the first all-instrumental disc in Harry Christophers’s series of recordings with the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2013

HINDEMITH Violin Concerto

No sooner had I finished praising to the skies Frank Peter Zimmermann’s wonderful new account of Hindemith’s great Violin Concerto...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2013

GLASS; FRANÇAIX Harpsichord Concertos

Take three concertos composed for the harpsichord and the stylistic range of post-war music would most likely be made evident....

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2013

ELGAR Emigma Variations

‘You’re so far away,’ said Leonard Bernstein upon first meeting the BBC Symphony Orchestra in its expansive rehearsal room. ‘Do...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2013

ELGAR Enigma Variations

‘You’re so far away,’ said Leonard Bernstein upon first meeting the BBC Symphony Orchestra in its expansive rehearsal room. ‘Do...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2013

DVOŘÁK Violin Concerto. Romance. Mazurek

The Dvořák is the one great Romantic concerto previously missing from the discography of Anne-Sophie Mutter and her record label...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2013

DUSAPIN Jetzt Genau! Quod, in memoriam Gilles Deleuze

Pascal Dusapin is among the most-recorded of present-day European composers and this new disc makes available three concertante works drawn...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2013

BRUCKNER Symphony No 1

Buyer beware: if you snapped up DG’s Claudio Abbado Symphony Edition, released earlier this year to celebrate the great man’s...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 11/2013

BRITTEN Violin Concerto

Britten’s masterly Violin Concerto really seems to have come into its own in recent years. I first made its acquaintance...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2013

BRAHMS Symphonies Nos 3 & 4

There are one or two magical moments here. The most obvious wafts in for the coda of the Third Symphony’s...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2013

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