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SAINT-SAËNS Piano Concerto No 2 (Nelson Freire)

Nelson Freire hasn’t made a commercial recording of Saint-Saëns’s Second Piano Concerto, which makes this radio recording from 1986 all...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2017

RACHMANINOV Symphony No 1 (Ashkenazy)

It’s third time around for Vladimir Ashkenazy and the Rachmaninov symphonies. Indeed, it’s difficult to think of any active musician more completely at...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 10/2017

RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No 2

The piano and orchestra are on an equal footing throughout Rachmaninov’s Second Concerto and Paganini Rhapsody, meaning that the best performances...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2017

PROKOFIEV Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 5

Olli Mustonen’s extreme interventionism is a known quantity by now, and it might be thought that of all composers Prokofiev – himself an inveterate exhibitionist –...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 10/2017

ORDOÑEZ Symphonies

Karl von Ordonez (or Carlo d’Ordoñez, among various spellings; 1734‑86) was a member of the minor Spanish nobility but spent his life...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 10/2017

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 11 - 13 & 20

One and a half discs here present Mozart’s piano concertos in their stripped-down forms for piano with string quartet, thus...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 10/2017

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 14 & 19 (Bavouzet)

Last November David Threasher found himself entranced by Vol 1 of Bavouzet’s Mozart concertos with the Manchester Camerata, concluding: ‘this is...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2017

MOZART Bassoon Concerto K191 M HAYDN Divertimento

Four works by two composers combine to create this hour-long concert of the sort that was common in Salzburg during Mozart’s...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 10/2017

FRICKER Symphonies Nos 1- 4

Lyrita follows up its useful pairing (4/16) of Peter Racine Fricker’s oratorio The Vision of Judgement (1958) and Fifth Symphony...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2017

ELCOCK Symphony No 3. Festive Overture

It is humbling that a self-taught European composer in his sixties can have written such a stack of well-crafted, emotionally...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 10/2017

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