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BARTÓK Contrasts LIGETI Concertos for Piano, Cello and Violin

György Ligeti’s Piano Concerto (1985‑88) has been threatening to transform itself into a modern composition lollipop and I, for one,...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 12/2015

PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No 2 TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No 1

As word began to trickle out from Fort Worth during the 2013 Van Cliburn Competition, her name kept coming up:...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2015

MAHLER Symphony No 7 (Chailly)

Developed and then fine-tuned in Leipzig over the last decade, Chailly.2 really does come with a different operating system. Briskly...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2015

BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 5 & 7

Manfred Honeck has been looked on with favour in these columns since the late 1980s, when he directed a fine...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/2015

CASELLA Symphony No 1. Symphonic Fragments

Gianandrea Noseda’s Casella reappraisal for Chandos, among his most significant achievements to date, has radically shifted our perspectives on one...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2015

MOZART Il re pastore

Metastasio’s serenata Il re pastore was devised for the domestic amusement of the Habsburgs at Schönbrunn in 1751. It had...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2015

Poetry in Music

The glowing textures of Harris’s classic anthem Faire is the heaven give way to an exuberant and rhythmically incisive account...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 11/2015

Le Concert Royal de la Nuit

On the evening of February 23, 1653, the Ballet Royal de la Nuit was performed at the Louvre for the...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2015

RAVEL Piano Concertos

On paper, this first foray into French territory by one of today’s star pianists looks promising. The Tonhalle Orchestra was...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2015

JS BACH Goldberg Variations BEETHOVEN Diabelli Variations

Igor Levit’s late Beethoven sonatas (11/13) and Bach Partitas (10/14) on Sony Classical have already made bold declarations of his...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2015

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