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PAGANINI Violin Concerto No 1. Caprices

From the very first bar of some discs you know you are in safe hands – artist, orchestra, conductor, sound...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2014

NIELSEN Symphonies Nos 4 & 5

If that really is restraint I’m hearing inside these performances of Nielsen’s Fourth and Fifth Symphonies from Sakari Oramo and...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 05/2014

MADETOJA Symphonies Nos 1 & 3

Leevi Madetoja was a hard-working composer-conductor-teacher-critic whose strongest claims to fame are his two operas, The Ostrobothnians and Juha. His...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 05/2014

HANDEL Organ Concertos played on different instruments

Recently I was introduced to Handel’s life-affirming Op 4 Organ Concertos played on a modern concert grand (2/14). Now, like...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2014

GRIEG; SCHUMANN Piano Concertos

The coupling of the Grieg and Schumann piano concertos was long dominated by the virtually ideal partnership of Stephen Kovacevich...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 05/2014

FOULDS Orchestral Music Vol 3

Both previous instalments in this valuable series (reviewed by Edward Greenfield in 11/10 and 4/11) boasted more than their fair...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 05/2014

DVOŘÁK Symphony No 6. The Water Goblin

First, a happy observation. This is the fourth CD of Dvorák’s Sixth that I’ve reviewed in the last two or...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2014

DESSNER St Carolyn by the Sea GREENWOOD Suite from 'There Will be Blood'

The incidence of composers at home in both classical and rock genres is hardly a recent phenomenon, yet the ease...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2014

BRUCKNER Symphony No 9

Mario Venzago’s vision of a leaner, trimmer Bruckner – with big-boned solemnity discreetly airbrushed away – aims to repoint the...

Reviewed in issue 05/2014

BRAUNFELS Piano Concerto

The music of Walter Braunfels (1882-1954), half-Jewish and ardently Catholic, disappeared from view in the middle of the last century,...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2014

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