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BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 1-9 (Manacorda)

Artur Schnabel’s dictum that great music is always greater than it can ever be performed is never more apposite than...

Reviewed in issue 07/2024

Berlin Harpsichord Concertos (Phillipe Grisvard)

The mid-18th-century Berlin court of Frederick the Great has been much visited by recording artists over the years, such that...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2024

VASKS; SCHUBERT 'In Evening Light'

There are now enough recordings of Pēteris Vasks’s first violin concerto Distant Light (1997) to furnish a Gramophone Collection. Here...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 07/2024

SCHMITT La Tragédie de Salomé. Chant élégiaque

For all his longevity and prolificacy, Florent Schmitt remains best remembered for a trilogy of pieces from the early 20th...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2024

REINECKE; SAUER Piano Concertos (Simon Callaghan)

The most significant thing about Hyperion’s latest Romantic Piano Concerto instalment is its inclusion of Emil von Sauer’s Second Concerto...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2024

PROKOFIEV; SIBELIUS Violin Concertos (Janine Jansen)

So impressive. Janine Jansen essentially strips these pieces of all the years of what one might call ‘performance adornment’ and...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 07/2024

PROKOFIEV Symphony-Concerto (Christian Poltéra)

Prokofiev had three goes at getting his first cello concerto right, and the last of these, the Symphony-Concerto (previously, and...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 07/2024

PICKARD Symphonies Nos 2 & 6. Verlaine Songs (Brabbins)

I began with the Sixth Symphony, John Pickard’s most recent essay in the medium, conceived in early 2021 during the...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 07/2024

All These Lighted Things: Prokofiev - Ogonek - Ravel

The novelty on this nicely if unspectacularly recorded album is the set of ‘three short dances’ for orchestra All These...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2024

MOZART Piano Concertos 11, 12 & 13 (Jean-Efflam Bavouzet; Ben Kim)

Here we have two experienced Mozartians, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet now in his ninth volume of Mozart piano concertos, Ben Kim in...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2024

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