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USTVOLSKAYA Piano Concerto SILVESTROV 4 Postludes

When Alexei Lubimov recorded Ustvolskaya’s Concerto for piano, strings and timpani (1946) for a not dissimilar bran tub of shortish...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2016

TCHAIKOVSKY Complete Works for Violin and Orchestra

This recording completes a circular journey for Jennifer Koh. In 1992 the American violinist was conducted by Alexander Vedernikov in...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2016

TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No 2. Concert Fantasy

If Tchaikovsky became the ‘uncrowned composer laureate’ of Imperial Russia, as Richard Taruskin so persuasively argues, surely the G major...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2016

STRAUSS Ein Heldenleben. Macbeth

If this is disc is anything to go by, Andrés Orozco-Estrada is a fine Straussian. He negotiates his way through...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 11/2016

STRAUSS Eine Alpensinfonie

Kent Nagano’s recent recording of Eine Alpensinfonie (Farao, 9/16) claimed to offer a considered, unbombastic approach to Strauss’s final, grandly...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 11/2016

SHAW Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2

Born in Maidenhead, Berkshire, Francis Shaw has enjoyed a busy career as a composer, teacher and administrator, and celebrates his...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2016

SCHUMANN Symphonies Nos 2 & 4

This disc appears almost simultaneously with Antonio Pappano’s very appealing live recordings of the same two symphonies (reviewed in the...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2016

PROKOFIEV Symphonies Nos 4 & 7

Is Valery Gergiev unchallengeable in this repertoire? He may be at something like his best in his recent Mariinsky remakes...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2016

PROKOFIEV Piano Concertos Nos 1, 3 & 4

How many times have I regretted a shortage of fantasy, flair and fairy-tale imagination in recordings of the Prokofiev piano...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2016

Penderecki Conducts Penderecki

This interesting collection of sacred music by Penderecki includes works from various periods of his life. The Psalms of David,...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 11/2016

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