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DVOŘÁK Symphonies Nos 3 & 7

Lesson No 1: always read the small print. Beyond Marcus Bosch’s nicely proportioned account of the Seventh Symphony’s Allegro maestoso...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2013

DOBRZYŃSKI Piano Concerto Op 2. Symphony No 2

Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyn´ski (1807-67) was a contemporary of Chopin; both exhibited a precocious talent for the piano and were students...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 07/2013

CHABRIER Orchestral Works

Listening to Chabrier’s Joyeuse marche of about 1888 you cannot help wondering whether it was from such a piece that...

Reviewed by Geoffrey–Norris in issue: 07/2013

BRUCKNER Symphony No 4

With the final wisps of tuning up and a glimpse of (for some reason) the score of the second flute...

Reviewed by Geoffrey–Norris in issue: 07/2013

BRITTEN Piano and Violin Concertos

Edward Gardner’s operatic background is proving a major selling point for Chandos’s Britten series. Each new release comes as though...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 07/2013

BRIAN Symphonies

Havergal Brian’s First English Suite (1905-06, here receiving its first professional recording) was his first great public success, its six...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2013

BEETHOVEN Triple Concerto. Archduke Trio

Those who might not count the Triple Concerto among Beethoven’s finest works could well be swayed by this intelligently balanced,...

Reviewed by Geoffrey–Norris in issue: 07/2013

JS BACH Double and Triple Concertos

The Channel Classics issue follows a disc of Bach solo concertos from Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque issued in 2010....

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 07/2013

DVOŘÁK Stabat Mater

The Stabat mater – a 13th-century poem that describes in 20 verses the imagined sufferings of the Virgin Mary at...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 07/2013

HANDEL Timotheus

This is a recording which ticks so many worthwhile boxes that it’s difficult to know where to begin. It’s a...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2013

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