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M RICHTER Exiles

Max Richter’s recordings are often based on a central concept or idea – Vivaldi in The Four Seasons Recomposed (2/13),...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 10/2021

PISTON Concerto for Orchestra

A colleague of mine once described Walter Piston as the American Albert Roussel. The comparison befits Piston’s neoclassical orientation and...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2021

MOZART Violin Concertos Nos 3 & 4 (Francesca Dego)

The opening tutti of K216 sets the template: lucid textures underpinned by a light, athletic bass line, springy rhythms and...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2021

MARTIN Violin Concerto. Esquisse (Svetlin Roussev)

Among Frank Martin’s more recorded works, his Violin Concerto (1951) has seldom been revived in concert; a pity, given its...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 10/2021

A LLOYD WEBBER 'Symphonic Suites'

The symphonic suite has quite a pedigree, from those seeking to bask in the drama and hit tunes of favourite...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 10/2021

GUIDO; VIVALDI The Four Seasons (2 CD + DVD)

You can always count on the Château de Versailles team to come up with an eminently classy-feeling musical bundle and...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 10/2021

FARRENC Symphonies Nos 1 & 3 (Equilbey)

Louise Farrenc’s three symphonies represent a double triumph: over sexual prejudice, in an age when female creative artists suffered from...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2021

DOHNÁNYI Tante Simona. American Rhapsody. Suite WEINER Serenade

Talk about coincidental musical similarities. The opening of the overture to Dohnányi’s one-act opera buffa Tante Simona (1911 12) is...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2021

CHOPIN Piano Concerto No 2. Four Scherzos (Seong-Jin Cho)

My immediate reaction to the opening track – the first of the Four Scherzos – was ‘fast, furious, fantastic fingers,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2021

BRUCKNER Symphony No 6 (Mena)

This recording was made under studio conditions a month before Juanjo Mena and the BBC Philharmonic performed the symphony at...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 10/2021

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