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'Not Now, Bernard' and other stories

David McKee’s children’s story Not Now, Bernard is wonderfully double-edged, attractive to youngsters because of the monster who eats children...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2020

Daniel Hope: Belle Époque

Chausson’s Concert for violin, piano and string quartet is the only big work on this two-CD set, and it’s given...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2020

WEINBERG Cello Concerto. Fantasy. Concertino (Borowicz)

Raphael Wallfisch has made it his ‘life mission as a cellist to champion the music of Jewish composers who were...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 04/2020

TARTINI Violin Concertos (Chouchane Siranossian)

There are some much-appreciated aspects to this release from Alpha Classics. Recorded for the first time is Tartini’s yet to-be-published...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 05/2020

SUK Symphony No 2 'Asrael' (Hruša)

Reviewing his earlier recording of Josef Suk’s Asrael in the context of a Collection (6/18) on this work prompted the...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2020

STRAUSS Eine Alpensinfonie. Tod und Verklärung (Petrenko)

Vasily Petrenko’s Strauss series with the Oslo Philharmonic has been a quiet revelation: three superb albums released with little fanfare...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2020

SHOSTAKOVICH Violin Concertos 1 & 2 (Ivan Pocheki)

The thirty-something Moscow-born virtuoso Ivan Pochekin has been a peripatetic recording artist. There’s a locally popular Melodiya album of duets...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2020

SCHUBERT Symphoneis Nos 2 & 6 (Gardner)

The opening salvo in Edward Gardner’s Schubert symphony edition (3/19) boded well. Its successor lives up to expectations. These are...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2020

RACHMANINOV Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (Behzod Abduraimov)

The two masterpieces Rachmaninov composed at his summer mansion in Lucerne in the mid-1930s make an obvious coupling and have...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 05/2020

PROKOFIEV Symphonies 1 & 5 (Søndergård)

All seven Prokofiev symphonies are getting performances these days and Thomas Søndergård has announced plans to present a complete cycle...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2020

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