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SZYMANOWSKI; KARŁOWICZ Violin Concertos

Three violin concertos – all Polish but all very different in mood – make up this latest release from Tasmin Little. Programmed last...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 10/2017

STRAUSS Oboe Concerto. Sonatina No 2

A tempting prospect: a programme of Richard Strauss played by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and featuring, in the Oboe Concerto,...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 10/2017

SAWYERS Symphony No 3. Songs of Loss and Regret

Philip Sawyers’s Third Symphony (2015) is undoubtedly one of the finest British symphonies of recent years. It was premiered for this...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2017

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

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