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BRAUNFELS Don Juan. Symphonic Variations

Braunfels’s Don Juan dates from 1924, when the composer’s reputation was riding high. Furtwängler conducted its premiere and the piece...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 02/2016

BEETHOVEN Complete Piano Concertos

These home-grown Hungarian recordings of the five Beethoven piano concertos come from one of the heartlands of Hungary’s never less...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 02/2016

BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 4 & 5

Such is the vitality of these performances recorded live in Vienna’s Musikverein in May 2015, it is difficult to believe...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 02/2016

BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 4 & 5

Such is the vitality of these performances recorded live in Vienna’s Musikverein in May 2015, it is difficult to believe...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 02/2016

CPE BACH Sinfonias and Concertos

It’s odd that Reinhard Goebel chose to open this birthday tribute to CPE Bach with a trifling G major Sinfonia...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2016

AVISON Concerti Grossi after Scarlatti

Fans of Avison’s music sometimes regret that the 12 concertos he published in 1744, adapted from harpsichord sonatas by Domenico...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2016

Vesselina Kasarova: Russian Arias

Despite moves into heavier roles in recent years (Eboli, Dalila and Carmen), the Bulgarian mezzo-soprano Vesselina Kasarova is still better...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2016

WEINBERG The Passenger; The Idiot

There are any number of Russian operas after Prokofiev but not too many that have been staged in the West,...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 02/2016

STRAUSS Arabella

Hot on the heels of Oehms’s excellent new Die Frau ohne Schatten (12/15), here comes another Strauss opera on (audio-only)...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2016

LECLAIR Scylla et Glaucus

In Homer, it is Circe who warns Odysseus of the perils of steering his ship between two rocks: one the...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 02/2016

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