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RIES Piano Concertos Opp 42 & 177

Violins not spread out but bunched on the left, cellos and basses similarly on the right. The piano is dead...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 01/2013

PROKOFIEV Violin Concerto No 2. Sonata for violin Op 80

This splendidly recorded performance of the Second Concerto accentuates its stark and sudden contrasts – the first movement’s swings of...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 01/2013

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Sheherezade PROKOFIEV Ala et Lolly

Different worlds entirely. Kirill Karabits’s Scythian Suite, although occasionally hampered by rather edgeless sound (ie the internal brass in ‘The...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2013

PROKOFIEV Romeo and Juliet

Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet has fared well on disc, with multiple recordings of the suites and latterly of the complete...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 01/2013

PETTERSSON Symphony No 6. Songs

Allan Pettersson’s Sixth Symphony (1963-66) is one of the middle-period symphonies (Nos 5-8) that to my mind represent his greatest...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2013

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 20 & 27

No susurrating strings at the beginning of K466. Claudio Abbado ensures that the syncopated rhythm, though soft, is precisely articulated,...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 01/2013

MAHLER Symphony No 8

With Mahler having held two prominent New York conductorships during the writing of his Eighth Symphony, many listeners at the...

Reviewed by K Smith in issue: 01/2013

LISZT A Dante Symphony, S109. Orpheus, S98

The obvious point of comparative reference for this excellent 2011 recording of Liszt’s Dante Symphony is the equally excellent Martin...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2013

KNUSSEN Symphonies Nos 2&3. Trumpets. Ophelia Dances

The recordings on the first of these CDs, reissued to mark Oliver Knussen’s 60th birthday, go back to the early...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 01/2013

HANDEL Concerti grossi Op 6 Nos 1-12

Combattimento Consort Amsterdam has achieved respectable success with stylistically accomplished performances of Baroque repertoire using predominantly modern instruments. This is...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2013

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