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TCHAIKOVSKY; KHACHATURIAN Piano Concertos

It’s always a pleasure when, like Fry’s Five Boys Chocolate (if you’re old enough to remember), realisation exceeds anticipation. From...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2016

Neeme Järvi conducts Ibert

Ibert always claimed he followed no compositional schools or aesthetic movements, though his reputation is hampered by charges of eclecticism,...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2016

HAYDN Opera Overtures

Haydn was a somewhat prolific composer (and performer) of operas for his Esterházy patrons. Ever modest, he nevertheless knew the...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2016

TCHAIKOVSKY; GRIEG Piano Concertos

After rubbing your eyes and maybe even hitting your forehead with the palm of your hand a few times to...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 05/2016

GRANADOS Suite on Galician Songs

Enrique Granados was a victim of the Great War: drowned with his wife in March 1916 after his ferry was...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2016

von GEMMINGEN Violin Concertos Nos 3 & 4

Ernst von Gemmingen cuts an intriguing figure. Born in 1759, he was a violin-playing German aristocrat who combined a series...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 05/2016

DVOŘÁK Symphonies Nos 7 & 8

Big-boned and big-hearted, Dvořák’s late symphonic music has found a good match in the Houston Symphony – on the whole....

Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 05/2016

DVOŘÁK; MARTINŮ Cello Sonatas

It’s no surprise that the Zurich-born cellist Christian Poltéra is a chamber music devotee. Even his big soloistic statements are...

Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 05/2016

CHOPIN Piano Concerto No 1

This probably doesn’t need comparisons, it was suggested when I was offered this disc to review. How true: what would...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2016

BRAHMS Piano Concerto No 1. 4 Ballades

In a concerto that gives a fair share of the heavy lifting to the orchestra, the Swedish Radio Symphony, under...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 05/2016

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