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CAUSTON Millennium Scenes. Chamber Symphony

Although Richard Causton provides extensive and interesting programme notes to enhance one’s appreciation and understanding of the orchestral and chamber...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2014

BLOWER Symphony in C. Horn Concerto HOWELL Tone Poem

Rarities galore jostle for attention on these anthologies. Vol 1 launches in propitious fashion with the tone-poem Lamia by Handsworth-born...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 06/2014

BLOCH Schelomo. Voice in the Wilderness CAPLET Epiphanie

There are few composers of such profound sincerity and absorbing interest as Ernest Bloch. He said that he had no...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 06/2014

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 2 SCHUBERT Symphony No 8

Interesting that the symphony included here that is played by the Chamber Orchestra of Europe Claudio Abbado recorded with the...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 06/2014

BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto Op 61 BERG Violin Concerto

This issue faces strong competition from the Gramophone Award-winning recording of the same two works by Isabelle Faust, with Abbado...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 06/2014

BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No 5 SCHUMANN Fantasy Op 11

The coupling of Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto with Schumann’s epic Fantasie is, to say the least, ambitious. The ancient Greeks would...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 06/2014

BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No 1 MOZART Piano Concerto No 12

Still very much with us at the age of 86, Leon Fleisher made these Cologne recordings midway between his winning...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 06/2014

JS BACH Complete Solo Keyboard Concertos

Julia Zilberquit’s Bach concerto cycle for Musical Heritage Society gains a new lease of catalogue life on Warner Classics. The...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2014

MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto No 2 ADAMS Violin Concerto

Bravo to the young American violinist Chad Hoopes for choosing such an unusual coupling of concertos for his debut CD....

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 06/2014

Bella dama: Baroque Cantatas

This is a promising sign, not only from the Italian countertenor Raffaele Pé but also the recently founded band Spiritato!,...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2014

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