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GUNNING Violin Concerto. Cello Concerto. Birdflight

In the booklet Christopher Gunning recalls how, in 2012, a memorable ascent of Sugar Loaf in the Black Mountains near...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2016

GERSHWIN Piano Concerto. An American in Paris. Rhapsody in Blue

Steven Richman is to Gershwin as Charles Mackerras was to Janáček. For years he has tirelessly worked to free the...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2016

BRAHMS Serenade. Variations on a theme by Haydn

Would it be fanciful to suggest that there’s something distinctly Netherlandish about this interpretation of Brahms’s D major Serenade? Jan...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2016

András Schiff at Mozarwoche

This DVD preserves highlights of a pair of concerts featuring András Schiff during last year’s Mozartwoche at the Mozarteum Foundation...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2016

BEETHOVEN Egmont Incidental Music. The Consecration of the House

It is something of an irony that Goethe conceived his five-act prose tragedy Egmont to include music but provided none,...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 09/2016

BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 3 & 7. Piano Concerto No 4

Here is Beethoven, Viennese Beethoven, under a conductor who remained impervious to all fads and fashions, save those of the...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 09/2016

BARTÓK Divertimento GHEDINI Violin Concerto

This interesting programme offers a revealing glimpse at how the Baroque concerto grosso form, or something very like it, was...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2016

JS BACH Keyboard Concertos BWVs1052 & 53. Violin Concertos – BWVs 1041&42

This is an unusual Bach coupling, but to give solo spotlights to both the founding members of Ausonia seems as...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2016

CPE BACH Cello Concertos

As a general rule it’s a bad idea to make sweeping generalisations in print, even if all your internal instincts...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 09/2016

Antonio Vaz Lemes: Sonata Brasileira

Here are four sonatas by four Brazilian composers whose careers span three generations. With one arguable exception, their work is...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2016

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