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LISZT Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2

Denis Matsuev won the 1998 Tchaikovsky Competition with a performance of Liszt’s First Concerto and has since emerged, in recital...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2012

HORNEMAN Orchestral Works

Carl Nielsen cited Christian Horneman (1840-1906) as a vitally fresh voice in Danish music: will this disc tell us why?...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2012

HANDEL Concerti Grossi, Op 3

The London music-seller John Walsh published Op 3 in 1734. Experts agree that Walsh probably constructed six concertos from numerous...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2012

RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No 2 GRIEG Piano Concerto Op 16

Lawrence Foster is one of the best concerto accompanists in the business and almost always manages to impart freshness and...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2012

GREENWOOD 48 Responses to Polymorphia PENDERECKI Polymorphia. Threnody

Recorded in Kraków after performances in Wrocław by an ensemble from Katowice, this disc combines two works from Krzysztof Penderecki’s...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 06/2012

DOBRZYNSKI; LESSEL Piano Concertos

‘Music of Chopin’s Time is a series of recordings from the Fryderyk Chopin Institute of Poland,’ writes Stanisπaw Leszczyn´ski, its...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2012

CHISHOLM Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2

It would be difficult to over-praise this wonderfully enterprising disc. Erik Chisholm was born in Glasgow and his music is...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 06/2012

SCHUMANN Piano Concerto, Op 54 BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No 30

If any great pianist merits the word ‘integrity’, it is surely Annie Fischer. Frequently described during her heyday as the...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 06/2012

BEETHOVEN Triple Concerto for Piano, Violin and Cello, Op 56. Concerto for Piano, Op 37

The grand manner is implicit in Kent Nagano’s opening of the Triple Concerto. Cellos and basses are deep yet pianissimo,...

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BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos Nos 1 - 5

I wonder if directing the Beethoven piano concertos from the keyboard is going to become a new orthodoxy? I hope...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 06/2012

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