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BRUCH Violin Concerto No 2

There’s much to admire in Jack Liebeck’s patrician account of Bruch’s D minor Violin Concerto. His playing is virtually flawless...

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

BRAHMS Piano Concerto No 1 LISZT Trois Odes Funebres

Zoltán Kocsis, that ‘giant of music’ (as Iván Fischer has called him), became Music Director of the Hungarian National Philharmonic...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2017

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 9 (Weil)

Bruno Weil’s initial basic tempo, held with conviction but not rigidity through the first movement’s vicissitudes, is crotchet=78: much less...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2017

BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 1 & 7 (Harnoncourt)

The Vienna Philharmonic gave this concert a little over a year after Simon Rattle had recorded the nine symphonies for...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2017

Nemanja Radulović: Bach

It must be said that Nemanja Radulovic´’s Bach and I did not get off to a good start. The disc...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2017

ARTYOMOV On the Threshold of a Bright New World. Ave Atque Vale. Gentle Emanation. Tristia II

Now in his mid-70s, Vyacheslav Artyomov is best known for his six cosmic-mystical-syncretic symphonies, which together make up one of...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 01/2017

ELGAR The Dream of Gerontius

As television presentations go, this often treasurable account of Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius is very much of its time...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2016

Fire Music: Infernal Flames and Celestial Blaze

You can tell within seconds that you’re listening to a Capella de la Torre recording. This award-winning early music ensemble...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2016

As Dreams

I have an abiding memory of attending a Norwegian Soloists’ Choir concert that journeyed through a tricky smorgasbord of Messiaen,...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 12/2016

MOZART Mass in C minor. Exsultate Jubilate

Period-instrument C minor Masses get better and better. The bar was set in the mid 1980s by Gardiner and Hogwood,...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2016

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