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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
CASELLA Divertimento per Fulvia GHEDINI Concerto Grosso
This is such an attractive programme that it’s hard to credit that three of the works here are receiving their...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2017
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Book review - Monteverdi’s Voices: A Poetics of the Madrigal (by Tim Carter)
'The forensic study of Monteverdi’s madrigals bears ripe fruit from four decades of philological...
Review - Philadelphia Orchestra and Eugene Ormandy: The Columbia Stereo Recordings 1964-1983
Jed Distler delves into a massive collection focusing on the conductor’s later discography
Review - 'Vienna: From Mozart to Schoenberg' (London Sinfonietta / David Atherton)
Richard Whitehouse on a collection taking in the London Sinfonietta’s 1970s recordings
Book review - Edward Elgar and Adrian Boult (by Nigel Simeone)
'A veritable treasure trove for enthusiasts'
Box-set round-up: April 2025 (Stokowski, Dorati, Fiorentino)
Rob Cowan on three collections of vintage recorded performances
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