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MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 20 & 23 (Charles Richard-Hamelin)

Jonathan Cohen and Les Violons du Roy brook no compromises at the dramatic start of the great D minor Concerto,...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2023

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 6 & 25 (Kristian Bezuidenhout)

Until his move to Vienna at the start of the 1780s, Mozart was an avowed admirer of the pianos of...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2023

MAYER Piano Concerto. Overtures (Tobias Koch)

The warm period sonorities of the Kölner Akademie – pure-toned strings and downy flutes – help to place Emilie Mayer...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2023

LUTOSŁAWSKI Concerto for Orchestra. Partita for Violin and Orchestra (Collon)

Following on from the symphonies (2/19, 4/20), the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra continues its Lutosławski survey with three characteristic pieces...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2023

HAYDN Symphonies Nos 96 - 98 (Fischer)

Where Mozart’s symphonic scores tend to be treated as sacrosanct, Haydn’s are often a cue for added ‘effects’, ear-tickling or...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2023

HAYDN; LIGETI 'Perspectives'

A collision of two aesthetic universes here: two minor-key Haydn symphonies, No 49 unremittingly sombre, No 80 trading in bizarre...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2023

HAYDN Symphonies Nos 6 - 8 (Plewniak)

Who would not want to spend a day with Haydn and his friends in the Esterházy court orchestra, grateful no...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2023

DELLO JOIO Oceans Apart

Few recordings have stronger ties to New York City than this one. The composer, Justin Dello Joio, was born and...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2023

BRAHMS Piano Concertos (Simon Trpčeski)

First, cards-on-table time. For me Brahms’s B flat Concerto (No 2) is by far the genre’s greatest of the Romantic...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2023

BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 4 & 5; 6 & 8 (Noseda)

I found the first volume of Gianandrea Noseda and the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington DC’s Beethoven symphony cycle (11/22)...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2023

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