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STRAUS Piano Concerto. Serenade

I guess I am not alone in being unaware of a piano concerto by Oscar Straus. It was written either...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW20

SILVESTROV Symphony No 7. Piano Concertino (Lyndon-Gee)

Anyone wanting to explore the mature output of the Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov could hardly do better than hear this...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: AW20

SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Concertos (Alban Gerhardt)

By accident or design this pairing arrives hard on the heels of Alina Ibragimova’s Shostakovich violin concertos for the same...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: AW20

SCHUBERT Symphonies Nos 2 & 3 (Jacobs)

Having given us a First and Sixth (2/19), René Jacobs and the B’Rock Orchestra return to start filling in the...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW20

OSWALD Piano Concerto SAINT-SAENS Piano Concerto No 5 (van Steen)

Of the many short piano works by Henrique Oswald (1852-1931), Il neige is the best-known – and the one that...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW20

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

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