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PROKOFIEV Peter and The Wolf RAWSTHORNE Practical Cats

>Presenter, actor and singer Alexander Armstrong is probably best known to children as the voice of CBBC’s Danger Mouse, and he...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2017

MOZART Serenades

An hour spent with Mozart in light-music mode is always an hour well spent, and here we have not one but...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2017

MOZART Violin Concerto No 5. Violin Sonata No 32

Noa Wildschut is one to watch – as proclaimed in the last issue of Gramophone, as well as by Anne-Sophie Mutter, who has mentored...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2017

MAHLER Symphony No 4 (Gergiev)

This is a trickiest of discs to write about – unremarkable performances often are. For the first few pages that’s how it felt:...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/2017

KARAYEV Seven Beauties suite. Don Quixote

While Shostakovich appeared to dominate the Russian-Soviet musical scene as observed from the West, his pupils were often more comfortable...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2017

Chrysalis

At the risk of sounding like a right old witch of a critic, I’m a fan neither of recordings with...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 11/2017

COKE The Romantic Piano Concerto, Vol 73

The English composer Roger Sacheverell Coke (pronounced ‘Cook’) was born in 1912 and died in 1972. With dates like this you...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2017

BRIAN Symphonies – Nos 8, 21 & 26

This is both a milestone recording and a disc of milestones. With the issue of the 26th (1966), all 32 of...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2017

BEETHOVEN Triple Concerto. Piano Concerto No 3

It is rare for us to be offered the C minor Piano Concerto and the Triple Concerto on the same disc....

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/2017

BAX Symphony No 2. Winter Legends

Bax’s Second Symphony (1926) bears a dedication to Serge Koussevitzky, who gave the world premiere in Boston on December 13, 1929....

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2017

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