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PROKOFIEV Symphony No 1. Romeo and Juliet (Shokhakimov)

This Warner Classics disc does indeed contain Prokofiev’s ultimate hits: we have the Classical Symphony and then two suites from...

Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 10/2024

PONE Portraits

There are riches flowing from the Skani label, currently doing internationally for Latvian music what Dacapo previously has for Danish....

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 10/2024

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 20 & 23 (Olga Pashchenko)

The slow movement of the A major Piano Concerto, K488, is a revealing indicator of a pianist’s approach to Mozart....

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 10/2024

MOZART Flute Concertos. Concerto for Flute and Harp (François Lazarevitch)

Period-instrument recordings of Mozart’s delightful Concerto for flute and harp are surprisingly infrequent, so it is good to see this...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2024

MENDELSSOHN Piano Concerto No 1 (Isata Kanneh-Mason)

Isata Kanneh-Mason’s fifth Decca release is dedicated to the music of Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn in an interesting programme including...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2024

LISZT A Faust Symphonie. Mephisto Waltz No 1 (Madaras)

Hard on the heels of Kirill Karabits’s high-powered Faust Symphony (Audite, 10/23) comes Gergely Madaras’s version from Liège, equally compelling...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 10/2024

HILLBORG Violin Concerto No 2. Liquid Marble (Eldbjørg Hemsing)

Anders Hillborg’s Violin Concerto No 2 is a real head-scratcher, but after eight or nine listens I’m just about ready...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 10/2024

HARTMANN 'Rediscovered'

It might be construed as ironic were the music of Thomas de Hartmann (1884-1956) to achieve wider recognition as a...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 10/2024

GERHARD Don Quixote. Suite from Alegrías. Pedrelliana (Mena)

Catalan composer Roberto Gerhard (1896-1970) – a student of Granados, Pedrell and Schoenberg – left Spain after the civil war...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2024

DVOŘÁK Symphonies Nos 7-9. Overtures (Bychkov)

There is, of course, a very real sense of ownership when the Czech Philharmonic play these pieces. Everything evolves so...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 10/2024

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