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WIENIAWSKI Works for Violin and Orchestra

Were you hearing these three works for the first time you might be well satisfied, but they offer no competition...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2015

SUCHOŇ Metamorphoses. Ballad Suite

Eugen Suchoň’s early Balladic Suite (1935) here receives its third recording that I can trace, curiously as it is the...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2015

SIBELIUS Symphony No 2 WAGNER Tannhäuser Overture

To launch his inaugural concert as the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Music Director, Andris Nelsons chose the Overture to Wagner’s Tannhäuser,...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 06/2015

SHOSTAKOVICH Violin Concerto No 1. Preludes

After the sensibly national programming of her first disc for Universal’s Madrid-based arm, a collection entitled ‘Spanish Landscapes’, Leticia Moreno...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2015

RASKATOV Piano Concerto STRAVINSKY Rite of Spring

Alexander Raskatov is probably best known for his opera based on Bulgakov’s Gogol-like tale The Heart of a Dog, which...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 06/2015

PROKOFIEV Symphony No 5. Scythian Suite

Andrew Litton began his Prokofiev symphony cycle with a successful reading of the profound yet problematic Sixth (6/13). The Fifth...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2015

PROKOFIEV Symphony No 3. Scythian Suite

Prokofiev, who never liked playing second fiddle to anyone, must have been piqued by Shostakovich’s Soviet celebrity. But could the...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2015

MÜTHEL Five Keyboard Concertos

‘Who was Johann Gottfried Müthel?’ asks the booklet-note, with good reason. For some his name might strike a faint bell...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2015

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 15 & 16

A pianist of prodigious technique, a musician of unpredictable temperament: such is the dichotomy of Ronald Brautigam. And it isn’t...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 06/2015

MENDELSSOHN Piano Concerto CHOPIN Piano Concerto No 1

Mendelssohn’s early one-act comic opera Die Heimkehr aus der Fremde (usually translated as ‘Son and Stranger’) had, I thought, entirely...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2015

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