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Sommernachtskonzert 2017

The Vienna Philharmonic’s Summer Night Concerts, open-air affairs in front of Schönnbrunn Palace, are now rushed on to the market...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 09/2017

Rysanov: In Schubert's Company

First, a name to watch, if you’re not already watching her, that is: Dobrinka Tabakova, Bulgarian-born, a prize-winning pupil of...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2017

An Eventful Morning in East London: 21st Century Violin Concertos

The title is slightly confusing. This disc was recorded at Wyastone Leys, Monmouth, and the location referred to in Robert...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 09/2017

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg: The Opening Concert

Six years late, around €500m over budget and bathed in a soap-opera-worthy cauldron of lawsuits and recriminations, Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie was...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 09/2017

STEINBERG Violin Concerto., Symphony No 4

Maximilian Steinberg is usually remembered as Dmitry Shostakovich’s composition teacher at the Petrograd Conservatory. Shostakovich’s youthful Symphony No 1 was...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 09/2017

SCHUBERT ‘The Finished “Unfinished”’: Symphony No 8, D759 (reconstr Venzago)

Mario Venzago explains that nobody knows why Schubert left the Unfinished unfinished. In fact, in the booklet, he persuasively expounds...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2017

OPAŁKA Emerge

As both the recording’s title and the subtitle of one of its works suggest, ‘Emerge’ also appropriately signals the arrival...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 09/2017

MUSSORGSKY A Night on the Bare Mountain PROKOFIEV Alexander Nevsky

The variably transliterated Dmitry Kitaenko continues his Indian summer with this non-standard programme of three distinctly malleable masterpieces. Only the...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 09/2017

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 25 & 26

No fevered D minor Sturm und Drang or sentimental Elvira Madigan for Francesco Piemontesi’s debut Linn (and Mozart concerto) recording....

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2017

SHOSTAKOVICH; MARTINŮ Cello Concertos No 2

Martinů completed his Second Cello Concerto in January 1945, shortly before commencing work on the Fourth Symphony. In comparison with...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 09/2017

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