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Tzimon Barto: Paganini Variations, Paganini Rhapsody

All six Grandes Etudes de Paganini are a comparative rarity on disc. Gary Graffman’s 1959 traversal (Sony, 4/65) is brilliantly...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2014

Basso Bailando

'Basso bailando’, or music for ‘dancing bass’, features the instrument in a programme where the emphasis is on music with...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 06/2014

VIVALDI The Four Seasons

Having recently reviewed Erik Bosgraaf’s recorder version of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons in these pages (Brilliant Classics, 4/14), two more are...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 06/2014

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 7. Piano Concerto No 3

Even those who can’t get enough Tchaikovsky might not find a convincing case for these two might-have-beens: the Symphony No...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2014

STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring. Symphony of Psalms

Admirers of Leonard Bernstein have never had it so good, not least the many fans of his ‘tumultuous’ way with...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2014

SPOHR Clarinet Concertos

Missing autographs raise problems. Three of these concertos survive only through manuscript copies printed or handwritten, No 4 the lucky...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 06/2014

SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Concertos

Truls Mørk signs in at the opening of Shostakovich’s First Concerto with a fine combination of swiftness and grit, helped...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 06/2014

SCHARWENKA Piano Concertos Nos 1 - 4

On the surface this Chandos release is to be welcomed for, if you had never encountered Scharwenka’s concertos before, you...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2014

PETRASSI Flute Concerto. Piano Concerto. Symphonic Suite

‘I consider the score a complete failure.’ Thus Goffredo Petrassi on his sole Piano Concerto, begun in 1936 and premiered...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 06/2014

MATTHEWS Vespers. Symphony No 7

Commissioned by the BBC Philharmonic, David Matthews’s Seventh Symphony of 2008 09 is a richly inspired, urgently communicative 20-minute canvas...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 06/2014

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