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MOZART Concerto for Flute and Harp. Flute Concerto No 1

‘Of course Mozart loved the flute!’ declares Philippe Bernold in his booklet-notes, tackling head-on a tired and frustrated Mozart’s notorious...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2017

LUTOSŁAWSKI Cello Concerto. Symphony No 4

I’m not going to beat around the bush: the reason to hear this recording – and hear it you should...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2017

LALO Symphonie espagnole TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto

Two violin concertos – Tchaikovsky’s and Édouard Lalo’s Symphonie espagnole – show very different sides of Augustin Hadelich. Recorded in...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2017

KROMMER Symphonies Nos 1-3

Like Clementi and Cherubini, Franz Krommer (1759-1831) was a contemporary of Mozart who outlived Beethoven and Schubert. By the time...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2017

JIRÁNEK Concertos

You might have heard of František Jiránek, the Czech violinist and composer who was born in 1698 on a Czech...

Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 03/2017

HOLST The Planets STRAUSS Also Sprach Zarathustra

Edward Gardner directs the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain in a traversal of Holst’s The Planets that genuinely excites...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2017

SAINT-SAËNS; RAVEL Piano Concertos

The American pianist Andrew von Oeyen has been around for some time (b1979, orchestral debut aged 10). He has, I...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2017

GARRIDO-LECCA Peruvian Suite. Symphonic Tableaux

Add Celso Garrido-Lecca (b1926) to the long list of Latin American composers whose music deserves our attention. I’d heard his...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2017

GARRIDO-LECCA Peruvian Suite. Symphonic Tableaux

Add Celso Garrido-Lecca (b1926) to the long list of Latin American composers whose music deserves our attention. I’d heard his...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2017

DAVIS Napoléon

It will come as little surprise that Beethoven’s Eroica, the symphony he originally dedicated to Napoleon, looms large in Carl...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 03/2017

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