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PÄRT Lamentate. These Words...

Ethereal, spiritual, transcendental … such epithets are often applied to Arvo Pärt but only partly reveal the composer’s sound and...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 05/2018

MOZART Violin Concertos Nos 4 & 5 (Znaider)

My first, uncharitable, reaction was to feel short-changed that we’re offered just two concertos where rival discs almost invariably include...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2018

MOZART Piano Concerto No 20 RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No 2

Aldo Ciccolini can be numbered among the likes of Arthur Rubinstein, Mieczysław Horszowski, Vlado Perlemuter and the still-very-much-active Menahem Pressler...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2018

MENDELSSOHN Symphonies Nos 4 & 5 (Manze)

How is the weather on the Italian leg of the Grand Tour? For John Eliot Gardiner the Mediterranean sun streams...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2018

MAHLER Symphony No 9 (Harding)

The gently irregular pulse at the outset of this Andante comodo bodes well for a Ninth which doesn’t lean on...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2018

KORNGOLD Symphonic Serenade. Sextet

Some exaggerated claims have been made for Erich Korngold’s extra-cinematic output but here are two of his finer works performed...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2018

HINDEMITH Symphonic Metamorphosis. Nobilissima Visione

I’d have to agree with Guy Rickards’s assertion that Hindemith’s Symphonic Metamorphosis is the most immediately attractive of his orchestral...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 05/2018

HAYDN London Symphonies (Fey/Spillner)

Thomas Fey and his Heidelberg band launched their Haydn symphony survey in 1999 with a disc of the Surprise and...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2018

HANDEL Concerti a Due Cori

On the face of it, Handel’s three Concerti a due cori – by which he meant for two orchestras –...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2018

GÁL Cello Works

By my reckoning this is the 15th Avie recording to feature the music of Hans Gál and, despite its worth,...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 05/2018

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