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MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 1, 17 & 20

Brave is the soul who dares to allow him or herself to be compared to the great Mozart pianists of...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2016

KARAEV Orchestral Works

These two works by the Azerbaijani composer Faradzh Karaev (b1943) date from 2004 (Violin Concerto) and 2009 (Vingt ans après...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 06/2016

IRELAND Music for String Orchestra

Originally fashioned as a test piece for the 1932 National Brass Band Championships, John Ireland’s A Downland Suite (expertly retooled...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 06/2016

HELLSTENIUS; MATRE Violin Concertos

The name of the Norwegian Ørjan Matre (b1979) should be familiar to British audiences following last year’s Proms performance of...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2016

GOLDMARK Symphony No 1. Prometheus Overture

‘Clear cut and faultless’ was Brahms’s judgement on Karl Goldmark’s Rustic Wedding Symphony, first performed in 1876. Though its bucolicism...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 06/2016

CZERNY Grand Concerto

These days we remember Czerny principally as a student and friend of Beethoven and a composer of numerous piano studies....

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2016

BRAUNFELS Serenade. Konzertstücke in C-sharp minor

The third disc in Johannes Wildner’s Braunfels series with the BBC Concert Orchestra contains the first recordings of the Prelude...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 06/2016

BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 1 - 9 (Complete)

This set of the nine symphonies derives from two cycles given in the Berlin Philharmonie in October 2015. Subscribers to...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 06/2016

BARTÓK Violin Concerto No 2. Concerto for Orchestra

Although I would hesitate to grant this flexible and generally well-recorded live performance of the Second Violin Concerto top-of-league status,...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 06/2016

ALBÉNIZ Piano Concerto No 1. Suite española

For Oliver Messiaen, Albéniz was ‘parmi les étoiles’, and it is easy to see the attraction of music blazing with...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 06/2016

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