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MAHLER Symphony No 7 (Fischer)

The ‘other’ Fischer boldly goes where his younger brother has enjoyed such conspicuous success – and Adam, with his excellent...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 01/2017

LALO Symphonie espagnole MANÉN Concierto espagnol

The Chinese violinist Tianwa Yang, primarily known and acclaimed for her Naxos discs of Sarasate, struggles here to make much...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 01/2017

KOZELUCH Piano Concertos Nos 1, 5 & 6

What if Mozart had never lived? Then perhaps we’d hold the Bohemian composer Leopold Kozeluch in higher regard. Certainly he...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2017

GINASTERA Piano Concerto No 2. Panambí

Ginastera was still a teenager when he began writing Panambí (1934 37). The concert suite he extracted from the nearly...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2017

KLAMI; ENGLUND Violin Concertos

The Finnish violin concerto after Sibelius: Erkki Melartin’s looked like a winner but sank; Aarre Merikanto wrote four but the...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 01/2017

DVOŘÁK Symphonic Variations. Slavonic Rhapsodies

Jakub Hrůša considers himself literally blessed to experience, love and transmit Dvořák’s work. The Czech conductor tells us so himself...

Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 01/2017

21st Century Violin Concertos

Our century may be young, but several violin concertos have already staked a claim as major statements in the genre:...

Reviewed by David Allen in issue: 01/2017

CHOPIN Piano Concerto No 1. Ballades

I don’t know how many recordings of Chopin’s E minor Concerto there are. The Deutsche Grammophon label alone has nearly...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2017

BRUCKNER Symphony No 8 (Saraste)

This recording of Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony, taped during a live concert in 2010, is distinguished by Jukka-Pekka Saraste’s brisk, focused...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 01/2017

BRUCH Violin Concerto

She did great things with Bruch’s first two violin concertos. Now Antje Weithaas, in her determination to complete the set,...

Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 01/2017

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