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MOZART Violin Concerto No 5. Piano Concertos Nos 3 & 14

This is the 11th volume of a series entitled ‘Next Generation Mozart Soloists’ undertaken by the Swiss Orpheum Foundation. The...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 02/2025

MOZART Piano Concertos (Khatia Buniatishvili. Dejan Lazić)

Dejan Lazić’s track record in Mozart is well established, as is his collaboration with Jan Willem de Vriend and the...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2025

MALAWSKI Orchestral Works (Smolij)

In Poland some people will recognise Artur Malawski’s name as that of the patron of the Podkarpacka Philharmonic in Rzeszów...

Reviewed by Aleksander Laskowski in issue: 02/2025

HIGGINS Horn Concerto; The Faerie Bride

You’d expect Gavin Higgins and Ben Goldscheider to strike special sparks off each other – a horn-player-composer steeped in brass...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 02/2025

HAYDN Symphonies Vols 32-35 (Johannes Klumpp)

Like the Transit of Venus or mild ale, final instalments of Haydn symphony cycles appear infrequently, which makes them worthy...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2025

GIPPS Orchestral Works Vol 3 (Gamba)

The main focus of interest on this third Chandos disc of Ruth Gipps’s orchestral music is the first recording of...

Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 02/2025

ELGAR Violin Concerto. Salut d'amour DELIUS Suite (Nicolas Dautricourt)

Through no fault of its own, this performance of Elgar’s Violin Concerto emerges at a very unfortunate time. It was...

Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 02/2025

DEAN In spe contra spem - Viola & Cello Concertos and Orchestral Works

Australian composer, former Berlin Philharmonic viola player and conductor Brett Dean’s music is typically dramatic, expressive and texturally, timbrally and...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 02/2025

CPE BACH; WF BACH; BENDA 'The Age of Extremes'

You might not guess just from its title that this release treads the mid-18th-century gully between the Baroque and Classical...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2025

Envols

Mélanie Harel’s incongruous quest to equip the English horn with wings – ‘Envols’ translates as ‘flights’ – results in a...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 02/2025

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