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Review of HANDEL Water Music Suites

HANDEL Water Music Suites

Long debunked is the charming story that the so-called Water Music restored Handel to favour with his one-time employer the...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue:

Review of DVOŘÁK Overtures

DVOŘÁK Overtures

Here is a generally satisfying programme, though the ‘Nature’ component of ‘Nature, Life and Love’, In Nature’s Realm, isn’t the...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2016

Review of DVOŘÁK Violin Concerto. Romance

DVOŘÁK Violin Concerto. Romance

It was an inspired idea to open this disc with Josef Suk’s wonderful Fantasy, a sort of free-form violin concerto:...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2016

Review of COPLAND Billy The Kid. Appalachian Spring. Rodeo

COPLAND Billy The Kid. Appalachian Spring. Rodeo

Andrew Litton’s recent recording of Copland’s Billy the Kid and Rodeo with the Colorado Symphony (BIS, 1/16) was notable for...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 03/2016

Review of BRUCH Violin Concerto No 1 LALO Symphonie espagnole

BRUCH Violin Concerto No 1 LALO Symphonie espagnole

Renaud Capuçon – that silky smooth French violinist – has just turned 40, and this celebratory disc is a good...

Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 03/2016

Review of BEETHOVEN Symphony No 7. Wellington's Victory

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 7. Wellington's Victory

Here is a fascinating journey back in time: as close a recreation as we can probably get, two centuries later,...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 03/2016

Review of BEETHOVEN Symphony No 6. Violin Concerto

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 6. Violin Concerto

Filmed at the 2015 Baden-Baden Easter Festival, this concert will mainly be of interest to followers of Isabelle Faust, whose...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 03/2016

Review of BADINGS Symphonies Nos 4 & 5

BADINGS Symphonies Nos 4 & 5

With the possible exceptions of Alphons Diepenbrock (1862-1921) and Louis Andriessen (b1939), 20th-century Dutch music remains a closed book for...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2016

Review of ELGAR; WALTON Cello Concertos

ELGAR; WALTON Cello Concertos

One of Steven Isserlis’s earliest triumphs in the recording studio was a wonderfully intuitive account of the Elgar Concerto with...

Reviewed in issue 03/2016

Review of Hélène Grimaud: Water

Hélène Grimaud: Water

The site-specific collaboration tears become…streams become…, created for New York’s Park Avenue Armory by pianist Hélène Grimaud and artist Douglas...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2016

 

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