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Bel canto amore mio

Various bizarre happenings surround this creditable new release: a contemporary review of unparalleled savagery from a French online source, an...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 07/2016

Stokowski Transcriptions

Bach purists should look away now. Leopold Stokowski’s 1927 orchestration of the D minor Toccata and Fugue calls for double...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2016

MOSZKOWSKI Piano Concerto SCHULZ-EVLER Russian Rhapsody

Listening to the extended orchestral opening that launches this disc, darkness shot through with piercing piccolo, you might be hard-pressed...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2016

GÁL Piano Concerto MOZART Piano Concerto No 22

If there is a happier 20th-century piano concerto than Hans Gál’s of 1948, I don’t know what it is. Playing...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2016

ELGAR Piano Quintet. Sea Pictures

It’s a brave soul who decides to reorchestrate Sea Pictures, one of Elgar’s most miraculously scored, ineffably touching and entrancingly...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 07/2016

DVOŘÁK Symphony No 8 SUK Serenade

Mariss Jansons’s first recording of Dvořák’s Eighth Symphony (made with the Oslo Philharmonic in 1992 for EMI) conveyed an admirable...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2016

BRUCKNER Symphony No 8 BEETHOVEN Symphony No 2 MOZART Symphony No 34

With the exception of the Firebird Suite, which he never recorded commercially, these live performances feature works central to Böhm’s...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 07/2016

BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto. MOZART Quintet. SCHUMANN Phantasie

It may seem brave (or perhaps foolhardy) for a relatively new ensemble and a youngish soloist/director – Sebastian Bohren (b1987)...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 07/2016

Martha Argerich: Live from Lugano 2015; Piano Duos and Concert

‘As you can see, Martha and I are not alone,’ announces Daniel Barenboim to a packed Teatro Colón as three...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2016

Accordato: Violin Sonatas from The Manuscript XIV 726 of the Minorite Monastery

The Manuscript XIV 726 of the Minorite Monastery in Vienna is one of the most important sources of Austrian Baroque...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 07/2016

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