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BERLIOZ Harold en Italie (Manze)

What’s the longest viola joke in the world? Harold in Italy. It didn’t make Niccolò Paganini laugh though. The virtuoso...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2018

BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 5 & 7 (van Zweden)

The signs are that Jaap van Zweden will restore to the New York Philharmonic some of the bulk (muscle tone,...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2018

BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No 5 (Bax)

It is almost impossible not to like Alessio Bax. Since his Leeds Competition win in 2000 he has confirmed his...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 06/2018

ALFVÉN Symphony No 1

Hugo Alfvén regarded his Symphony No 1 (1896) as the first ‘written in the Swedish language’. As vague a concept...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2018

BARTÓK Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 2 (Tetzlaff)

Ondine’s new Bartók CD is an out-and-out winner; but, having in the past praised numerous versions of these two works,...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2018

BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 4 (Vogt)

Lars Vogt would seem to have kept the best until last in this series of Beethoven concerto recordings with the...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 05/2018

VIVALDI The Four Seasons (Podger)

It feels slightly unoriginal to begin a review by quoting that old adage, ‘the best things come to those who...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 05/2018

REICH Drumming

The Colin Currie Group was formed in 2006 for a Prom that included Steve Reich’s Drumming. If you attended the...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 05/2018

Ryutaro Suzuki plays Scarlatti, Ravel, Mozart and Liszt

The Japanese pianist Ryutaro Suzuki will be 28 this year. Since 2008 he has studied at the Paris Conservatoire, the...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 05/2018

Elena Gaponenko: Opus 8

For her second recording, the Russian pianist and cellist Elena Gaponenko plays a virtuoso solo piano recital on disc 1...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2018

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