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CASKEN Violin Concerto. Concerto for Orchestra

For those unfamiliar with John Casken’s music, he writes in a manifestly 21st-century style, incorporating elements of expressionism and lyrical...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2014

BRITTEN. WEINBERG Violin Concertos

Weinberg’s Violin Concerto was composed in 1959, around the time of Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No 1. Its sturdy, unrelenting first...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 07/2014

BIZET L’Arlésienne Suites FAURÉ Masques et Bergamasques

Winner of the 2009 Besançon Competition, Kazuki Yamada was just 23 when he was appointed the first-ever Principal Guest Conductor...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 07/2014

BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No 3. Piano Sonatas Nos 14 & 32

Fazil Say, a pianist with a maverick reputation, now takes Beethoven by storm and the result, while unsettling for those...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 07/2014

MOZART Adagios and Fugues after JS Bach

After settling in Vienna, heedless of his father’s dire warning, Mozart took every opportunity of impressing the sceptical Leopold with...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2014

STRAVINSKY Concerto per due pianoforti soli LISZT Concerto pathetique

This year’s winner of the Strangest Cover Photo Award goes to Neos: six bemused people sit in a section of...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2014

Dinara Alieva: Pace, mio Dio

From the quality of her voice, one would guess that the soprano Dinara Alieva came from Spain or Italy, but...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 07/2014

Love Duets

Almost everything about this disc is inevitable. A real-life couple, Ailyn Pérez and Stephen Costello share much of the same...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2014

Hibla Gerzmava: Soprano

The circumstances of the recording aren’t promising: a one-off concert with an up-and-coming soprano singing an impressive though exhausting range...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2014

VIVALDI L'incoronazione di Dario

The plot of L’incoronazione di Dario (1717) revolves around three rival claimants to the throne of Persia. The shrewd lord...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2014

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