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ELGAR Symphony No 1. Introduction and Allegro

With each new disc that arrives it becomes clearer and clearer that Edward Gardner is evolving into something really special....

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 05/2017

DVOŘÁK Symphony No 9

‘One that loved not wisely but too well.’ Othello’s self-assessment could apply to Andrés Orozco-Estrada’s account of Dvořák’s Ninth Symphony...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 05/2017

CZERNY The Romantic Piano Concerto, Vol 71

Patience can be a virtue. When I reviewed Rosemary Tuck’s version of Czerny’s A minor Piano Concerto, Op 214, last...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2017

CHOPIN Works for Piano and Orchestrra

Ignoring the booklet’s avowal that the works featured on this album are ‘generally something of a blind-spot for music lovers...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2017

BRAHMS Serenades Nos 1 & 2

First impressions are wholly positive. Without sounding uncultivated, the Gävle Symphony Orchestra catch nicely the outdoorsy good humour of the...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2017

GLASS Violin Concerto BERNSTEIN Serenade after Plato’s Symposium

Glass and Bernstein may not trip off the tongue quite as easily as Bach and Handel or Haydn and Mozart,...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 05/2017

BÉRIOT Violin Concertos Nos 4, 6 & 7

It’s extraordinary how potent cheap music is. So goes that delicious quote of Noël Coward’s, and perhaps rather naughtily it’s...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 05/2017

BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2

Let me lay out information first of all: this is the conclusion of Yevgeny Sudbin’s cycle of the five Beethoven...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 05/2017

Seven Responses

These seven chamber cantatas were commissioned by the innovative chamber chorus The Crossing to go with a 2016 concert performance...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2017

Dream Catchers

This release’s ‘masters in miniature’ subtext is a tad deceptive. The brief movements encompassing Schumann’s Carnaval and Ravel’s Valses nobles...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2017

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