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REGER Violin Concerto Op 101. 2 Romances

Improbably, two recordings of this mammoth Concerto have arrived within six months. It’s a problem piece, as Reger seems always...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 03/2012

PANUFNIK Symphonic Works Vol 4

How come Andrzej Panufnik’s Sinfonia elegiaca and Sinfonia sacra feel emotionally and intellectually satisfying while his Symphony No 10 doesn’t...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 03/2012

MOZART Sinfonia concertante K297b. Concerto for flute & harp, K299

With soloists from his own Orchestra Mozart, Claudio Abbado here demonstrates formidably their virtuosity and sensitivity in two of Mozart’s...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue:

MOERAN Sketches. Oveture for a Festival IRELAND Sarnia

Ernest John (‘Jack’) Moeran laboured over his never-to-be-finished Second Symphony for some 11 years until his death in Kenmare, County...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2012

KALINNIKOV Symphonies 1 & 2

Vassily Kalinnikov’s First Symphony of 1894-95 contains at least one tune to die for: beam to 1'08" in the opening...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue:

BRUCKNER Symphony No 5

It’s difficult to believe when watching a very frail-looking Günter Wand conducting Bruckner’s Fifth Symphony at the Proms in 1990...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2012

BRITTEN Violin Concerto, Op 15. Double concerto. Lachrymae, Op 48a

A neat coupling brings together the three works that Britten wrote for violin and/or viola with orchestra. The most substantial...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 03/2012

BRAHMS Piano Concerto No 1

Julius Katchen was a pianist whose playing exuded a glamour and exuberance known to few. I have returned to his...

Reviewed in issue 03/2012

BENJAMIN Violin Concerto. Romantic Fantasy

I was mightily impressed with Arthur Benjamin’s brooding, large-scale Symphony from 1944-45 (in Barry Wordsworth’s eloquent account with the LPO...

Reviewed in issue 03/2012

CHOPIN Piano wks BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No 5

Fans of the great Nelson Freire will, like me, be as surprised as they are intrigued to read of the...

Reviewed in issue 03/2012

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