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SZYMANOWKSI Violin Concerto No 1 RAUTAVAARA Fantasia

There are elements of fantasy in both Karol Szymanowski’s heady Violin Concerto No 1 and Maurice Ravel’s Tzigane, but the...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 01/2018

PROKOFIEV Symphony No 7. Lieutenant Kijé - Suite

Marin Alsop’s Prokofiev cycle has had its ups and downs. A particular highlight was the generous coupling of the 1947...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 01/2018

PAUS Odes & Elegies

YouTubers may well be familiar with the name of Marcus Paus as the world’s fastest (electric) guitarist. He has reinvented...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2018

HAYDN Symphonies Nos 19, 18 & 81 KRAUS Symphony

Fresh from winning the Orchestral category at last September’s Gramophone Awards with his previous volume of Haydn symphonies, Giovanni Antonini...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2018

GRIEG Piano Concerto (Bavouzet)

What could be more authentic than the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra performing Grieg – a composer with whom they had a...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2018

STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring DEBUSSY Printemps

Three very different musical responses to spring make up this enterprising programme from Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 01/2018

BRAHMS Symphony No 2 (Järvi)

Orchestrally speaking, these are performances of refinement and style; rarely have I heard the poco sostenuto end to the Second...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 01/2018

BENNETT Marimba Concerto. Symphony No 3

Richard Rodney Bennett wore his prodigious talent lightly – but he dispensed it generously. From hardcore Darmstadt beginnings to friendlier...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2017

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 9 (Böhm)

None of the six occasions on which the Ninth has been given at Bayreuth have lacked cultural or political significance....

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2017

BAKER Piano Concerto. Aus Schwanengesang

Here are two substantial works by the Bloomington-based composer Claude Baker (b1948), whose Piano Concerto (2010), written to celebrate the...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2018

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