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NIELSEN Symphonies Nos 1 & 3

Bracing and genial by turns, I guess you might characterise these symphonies as Nielsen’s most companionable. The first and second...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2015

MOZART Serenade No 5. Divertimento No 10

Recordings of Mozart’s orchestral serenades are still relatively uncommon, so this disc of two is welcome. Mozart composed them during...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 03/2015

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 9 & 12

‘There is little point in recording Mozart’s most popular concertos for the hundredth time,’ the conductor Heribert Beissel disarmingly claims...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 03/2015

MOZART Complete Violin Concertos

‘Youthful music of yearning…imbued with an innocent utopianism, a faith in perfectability, beauty, and sensual fulfilment’ was Mozart biographer Maynard...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2015

MENDELSSOHN Symphonies Nos 4 & 5

Reviewing Jan Willem de Vriend’s 2011/12 recording of Mendelssohn’s Second Symphony I concluded that, ‘for a fresh, immediate statement that...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2015

MEDTNER Piano Concerto No 3 SCRIABIN Piano Concerto

It’s perhaps not surprising that Yevgeny Sudbin should be drawn to Nikolai Medtner: both are Russian-born, both ended up in...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 03/2015

MAHLER Symphonies Nos 1 & 2

Readers with long memories may recall that the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra was responsible for the first-ever digital Mahler symphony...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2015

LINDSAY After the Snow

Well established as a composer for film and television, Malcolm Lindsay is increasingly becoming known for his concert output –...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 03/2015

LIGETI Piano Concerto. Cello Concerto

Of Ligeti’s five concertos, the earliest is for cello, from 1966. It’s also his least known, perhaps because the solo...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2015

KORNGOLD Violin Concerto. Violin Sonata

Whenever a new recording of the Violin Concerto by Korngold comes up for review, and they’ve been coming thick and...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 03/2015

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