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The Silver Violin

This new release from Nicola Benedetti offers a programme inspired by film music with Korngold’s Violin Concerto as the centrepiece,...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 11/2012

Perspectives

Norway’s only full-time professional chamber orchestra is heard to advantage on this disc largely devoted to 20th-century classics for strings....

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 11/2012

Le Paris des Romantiques

The premise of this fascinating disc is that all three composers knew, worked with and respected one another in the...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 11/2012

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 2

Pletnev has always been respectful of the classicism, the formal ‘correctness’, so often downplayed in Tchaikovsky performances – but here,...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/2012

TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No 1

After two hearings, this disc provoked two contradictory responses. My initial notes concluded that Trifonov was blessed with fabulous fingers...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2012

STANDFORD First Symphony 'The Seasons'. Cello Concerto

Yorkshire-born Patric Standford (b1939) was a pupil of Edmund Rubbra and Norman Del Mar at the Guildhall School of Music,...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2012

SPOHR 4 Concertos for Clarinet

Louis Spohr made no concessions to technical limitations in the concertos he wrote for clarinettist Simon Hermstedt, who didn’t ask...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 11/2012

SIBELIUS Symphonies Nos 5 & 6

Paavo Berglund set down three Sibelius symphony cycles (with the Bournemouth Symphony and Helsinki Philharmonic orchestras, both for EMI, and...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2012

The Romantic Violin Concerto, Vol 13 – Schumann

Anthony Marwood has an enviable reputation as a Schumann-player (among those of us who envy such things, at least). His...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2012

SCHUMANN Symphonies Nos 2 & 4

Geraint Lewis, in his recent Gramophone Collection on Schumann’s Rhenish Symphony, quoted Nikolaus Harnoncourt’s views on the much-maligned composer’s orchestration...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2012

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