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Before Mozart: Early Horn Concertos

‘WA Mozart may have written the greatest works for horn and orchestra but this should not lead us to define...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 06/2018

WIDMANN Viola Concerto (Tamestit)

Still in his mid-forties, Jörg Widmann has a sizeable discography as a composer, clarinettist and now conductor. This latest release...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2018

WALTON Viola Concerto (Ehnes)

It’s not just critics who get things wrong. Even great soloists have occasionally rejected concertos before changing their minds. Nikolay...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2018

URSPRUCH Piano Concerto. Symphony

By coincidence, on the day this CPO disc arrived for review I was engaged in researching the booklet for a...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2018

TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto (Weithass) String Quartet No 3

‘A gracefully elegant, thoroughly aristocratic Russian’ is how the German violinist Antje Weithaas describes Tchaikovsky in her booklet note. She...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2018

SCHUMANN Cello Concerto (Gabriel Schwabe)

The Spanish-German cellist Gabriel Schwabe offers what the booklet describes as Schumann’s ‘Complete Works for Cello’. In fact, all that...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2018

SCHUMANN Piano Concerto (Brendel)

‘Next to … Liszt’s Variations on Bach’s “Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen” … I found the neoclassicist/neo-baroque corset worn by Brahms...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2018

SAINT-SAËNS Piano Concertos Nos 4 & 5 (Descharmes)

Saint-Saëns’s five piano concertos are well catered for on disc. Every home should have at least one complete set of...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2018

RUDERS Viola Concerto. Handel Variations

Poul Ruders’s Viola Concerto was written in 1993 94, between his First Cello Concerto, Anima, and First Piano Concerto, but...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2018

RACHMANINOV Symphony No 2 (Ashkenazy)

Vladimir Ashkenazy has always conducted Rachmaninov’s most extended symphony with conviction, making it feel not one bar too long. Indeed,...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2018

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