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WILLIAMS Across the Stars (Anne-Sophie Mutter)

The Yellow Label is pushing out the boat for John Williams, with ‘Across the Stars’ following in quick succession from...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: AW2019

STRAUSS Don Quixote. Cello Sonata

As I noted when reviewing violinist Arabella Steinbacher’s tribute to him earlier this year (Pentatone, 1/19), the output of Richard...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW2019

RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No 2 (Dong Hyek Lim)

The very opening of Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto is a good indicator of how the pianist views the piece and...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW2019

G PROKOFIEV Saxophone Concerto; Bass Drum Concerto

It seems impossible to discuss Gabriel Prokofiev’s music without some reference being made to his famous grandfather, Sergey Prokofiev. Yet...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: AW2019

Ning Feng: Virtuosismo

My reaction to this release is more or less the same as to the one I reviewed three years ago...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW2019

MONTERO; RAVEL Piano Concertos

As person and pianist, Gabriela Montero has always been unequivocal in outlook and it is little surprise she has turned...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: AW2019

MAHLER Symphony No 1 (Jansons)

Following the example of Berlioz (and before him Beethoven in the Pastoral), the central subject of the First Symphony (and...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: AW2019

KROGULSKI Piano Concerto (Howard Shelley)

Nelson Goerner introduced me (and, I suspect, 99.9 per cent of Gramophone readers) to the name of Józef Krogulski (1815...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW2019

ICHMOURATOV Letter From an Unknown Woman

Music is nothing without some degree of generic and geographical cross fertilisation and the work of Airat Ichmouratov is one...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: AW2019

HAYDN Organ Concertos (Iain Quinn)

These cheery works are Haydn’s earliest concertos, composed in the early to mid-1750s when he was eking out a living...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: AW2019

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