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PROKOFIEV; RACHMANINOV Piano Concertos No 2 (Matsuev)

Gergiev. Matsuev. Rachmaninov. What could possibly go wrong? Well, quite a lot as it happens. This is, apparently, a live...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2018

MUHLY Howards End

In the same week last November that BBC Television unveiled its new adaptation of Howards End, ENO presented the premiere...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 04/2018

MAHLER Symphony No 3 (Mehta)

Arriving simultaneously with the news that Lahav Shani is to succeed Zubin Mehta at the helm of the Israel Philharmonic,...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2018

MAHLER Symphony No 1 (Fischer)

This is a terrific account of Mahler’s fledgling symphony – full of the rashness and impetuosity of youth and the...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 04/2018

LISZT RIAS Recordings, Vol 2

The repertoire is all Liszt. Bolet was one of the finest of all Liszt players. Liszt was the composer who,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2018

KOFFLER Piano Concerto. Symphony No 2

Józef Koffler (1896-1944) was an exact contemporary of Roberto Gerhard and Roger Sessions. Like them, his identity as a composer...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 04/2018

KODÁLY Concerto for Orchestra. Variations on a Hungarian Folk Song

Béla Bartók once said of his friend Zoltán Kodály that ‘his true nature is contemplative’. Did JoAnn Falletta have that...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2018

KERNIS Dreamsongs – Three Concertos

Honoured and widely performed in the US, Aaron Jay Kernis’s music has struggled to register a similar impact beyond its...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2018

KABALEVSKY; WEINBERG Concertos

With its clear-cut format and ready melodic appeal, Mieczysaw Weinberg’s Violin Concerto (1959) made its way to the West long...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2018

HAYDN ‘An Imaginary Orchestral Journey’

The concerts last July looked a peculiar affair and the CD appears so too. Rattle has chosen a handful of...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2018

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