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MOZART Violin Concertos Nos 1-5 (Skride)

Baiba Skride ‘has this rare quality of discovering the music as we play’, says conductor Eivind Aadland. ‘I know that...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW20

HAYDN Symphonies Nos 6-8 (Vashegyi)

In old age Haydn retained a soft spot for his ‘Times of Day’ trilogy, his first works for the Esterházy...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: AW20

HANDEL Concerti grossi Op 3 (Forck)

The Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, here under the directorship of Georg Kallweit, return in full vigour in this follow-up...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: AW20

GUARNIERI Choros I. Seresta

Camargo Guarnieri is one of Brazil’s most interesting composers. While Villa-Lobos is far more present in the public imagination, there...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: AW20

CRAMER Piano Concertos Nos 1, 3 & 6 (Shelley)

A full 16 years elapsed between the first and second volumes of Howard Shelley and the London Mozart Players’ exploration...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW20

BRAHMS Symphony No 4 (Dausgaard)

'The real purpose of using a small orchestra’, Thomas Dausgaard told Gramophone’s Andrew Mellor regarding his recording of Brahms’s Second...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: AW20

BORISOVA-OLLAS Angelus: Orchestral Works

Russian-born and resident in Sweden since 1993, Victoria Borisova-Ollas was a pupil of Nikolai Korndorf. He was the Soviet maverick...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: AW20

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 5 GOSSEC Symphonie (Roth)

Symphonist to the Revolution vs revolutionary symphonist: Les Siècles and their founder-maestro have put flesh on the bones of a...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: AW20

BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 1-5 (Savall)

We know a lot about how Beethoven composed at the keyboard, and right from the clipped, slashed and rolled tutti...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: AW20

BEETHOVEN Complete Piano Concertos (Bavouzet)

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet first crossed my radar in 2005 with a striking Liszt recital on MDG that contained, among other gems,...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: AW20

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