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Aho Symphony No 13

The Second Piano Concerto (2001-02) is one of Aho’s most immediately appealing works. It radiates joy and wanders lyrically around...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 13/2010

Italian Flute Concertos

The Italians embraced the transverse flute rather more cautiously than others, but when they did it was with characteristic enthusiasm;...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 4/1994

Rhim Piano Works

The collective title of these piano pieces refers to the work of one of Wolfgang Rihm’s mentors, Stockhausen, whose influence...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 2/2004

Purcell Dido & Aeneas

Harmonia Mundi can already claim a hat-trick of Dido s: Joel Cohen’s little-known but pioneering reading of 1979 from Boston...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 3/2001

Mozart (Le) Nozze di Figaro

This is emphatically not a reissue on DVD of Ponnelle’s 1970s studio film of the work, conducted by Böhm, rather...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/2004

Brahms Symphonies Nos 2 & 4

A rare coupling here of Brahms’s most gloriously lyrical symphony with the finest of the four, with its exalted finale,...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 11/2008

Adams Grand Pianola Music

The very mention of 'minimalist' music is calculated to produce a pronounced reaction but works by the two composers on...

Reviewed in issue 3/1987

Bax Piano Duet Works

The Chandos Bax discography expands still further with this recording of his two-piano works, all but the first (Moy Mell)...

Reviewed in issue 7/1989

Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 5

What a fine cycle this has been, spirited and never less than innately musical. Easy on the pocket, too, lest...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 4/1998

Concerti d'amore

Warning: this delightful disc is a veritable parliament of fowls reimagined as a series of ménages à trois, so seductive...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 11/2010

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