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MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 23 & 27 (Pressler)

I gather that Kimbo Ishii sets a sedate tempo for K488’s opening ritornello to accommodate Menahem Pressler’s 94 year-old hands....

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2018

GARŪTA Concerto for Piano and Orchestra. Preludes

For those like me to whom the name of Lūcija Garūta is new, let me tell you (because the discursive...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2018

COPLAND Symphony No 1. Dance Symphony

As with the previous instalment, this third volume of John Wilson and the BBC Philharmonic’s survey of Copland’s orchestral music...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2018

GÁL; CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO Cello Concertos

Both these composers were forced from their homelands by Nazism, a big enough upheaval for anyone to come to terms...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 02/2018

BRUCKNER Symphony No 6 (Haitink)

It’s pleasing to see Haitink still including Bruckner’s Sixth Symphony in his concert programmes, even if it doesn’t feature as...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 02/2018

BRAHMS Symphony No 2 (Dausgaard)

Once again, we face the familiar conundrum: a work that has overcome ‘pathos and Faustian conflicts’ and ‘extends its warm...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2018

BRAHMS Piano Concerto No 2 STRAUSS Burleske

Here’s the latest addition in Joseph Moog’s fast-growing discography, recorded in 2016 when he was 28. He has already impressed...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2018

Now and Then: MADERNA Transcriptions BERIO Chemins V

Its title may evoke that of an album by The Carpenters in their heyday but this disc offers a welcome...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2018

JS BACH Brandenburg Concertos (Goebel)

A new set of the Brandenburgs from Reinhard Goebel? One’s mind immediately goes back to the 1980s, when his first,...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2018

MIGNONE; ALBENIZ Piano Concertos

Don’t let the strange cover photo put you off (conductor looking into camera, soloist looking in a completely different direction)....

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2018

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