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Review of KORNGOLD Piano Trio. Suite

KORNGOLD Piano Trio. Suite

There remains at least one Korngold masterpiece awaiting definitive, rehabilitative advocacy (the Symphonic Serenade of 1948), despite which the composer...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2015

Review of FITELBERG String Quartets

FITELBERG String Quartets

The Fitelberg you may have heard of is Grzegorz, also a composer but better-known as conductor and transcriber of Szymanowski,...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2015

Review of DVOŘÁK String Quartets

DVOŘÁK String Quartets

Context is the principal factor that links these two programmes, with Dvořák as the common linchpin: an overwhelming musical presence...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2015

Review of RACHMANINOV; CHOPIN Cello Sonatas

RACHMANINOV; CHOPIN Cello Sonatas

It’s a bold musician who dares to duet with Alisa Weilerstein. So much is out of the question: complacency, clichés,...

Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 11/2015

Review of BARTÓK Sonata for 2 Pianos HINDSON Pulse Magnet

BARTÓK Sonata for 2 Pianos HINDSON Pulse Magnet

Let’s start in the middle: Matthew Hindson’s piece is fun, kicking off with a lusty ‘one, a-two, a-one-two-three-four!’ which leads...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2015

Review of Intermezzi del Verismo

Intermezzi del Verismo

This is a puzzling issue in some respects, as well as an unsatisfactory one. In essence, it’s an old-fashioned disc...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2015

Review of DVOŘÁK Serenade for Strings SUK Serenade HERBERT 3 Pieces

DVOŘÁK Serenade for Strings SUK Serenade HERBERT 3 Pieces

A year or two ago I watched a fascinating Supraphon documentary about the great Czech conductor Václav Talich who, towards...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2015

Review of TROTIGNON Piano Concerto 'Different Spaces'

TROTIGNON Piano Concerto 'Different Spaces'

Born in 1974, the brilliant French jazz composer/pianist Baptiste Trotignon has already won many plaudits both as a gifted solo...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2015

Review of STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring

STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring

Does The Rite of Spring still have the power to shock? Seeing the Mariinsky Ballet reconstruction of the original ballet...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2015

Review of SIBELIUS Humoresques

SIBELIUS Humoresques

Sibelius’s Two Pieces, Op 77, were on my wish list for recording projects in the composer’s anniversary year, so it’s...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 11/2015

 

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