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STRAUSS Don Juan. Death and Transfiguration. Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks

Not surprisingly, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra play these three masterly symphonic poems with virtuosity, great feeling and a glorious patina...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 03/2014

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 20 & 25

A disc of Mozart piano concertos recorded in concert by Martha Argerich with Claudio Abbado and Orchestra Mozart was always...

Reviewed in issue 03/2014

CHOPIN Piano Concertos

Ingrid Fliter received rave reviews for her two all-Chopin discs for EMI – that of the Waltzes (12/09) remains among...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2014

SCHMELZER Sacro-Profanus

Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (c1620/23 1680) spent most of his career occupying prestigious appointments at the Viennese court of Emperor Leopold...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2014

WAGNER Der Ring Das Nibelungen - Orchestral Excerpts

The well-established son of a famous conductor and Wagnerian (Armin Jordan), Philippe Jordan’s Wagner from America and Europe has already...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 02/2014

VIVALDI Concertos for 2 Violins and Strings

Founded in 2012 and named after Cesti’s opera for the wedding festivities of the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I in...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2014

STRAUSS Violin Concerto. Violin Sonata

Not long ago I was praising Richard Strauss’s early (1887) Violin Sonata, attractively played by Tasmin Little and Piers Lane,...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 02/2014

SCHOENBERG Verklärte Nacht. Chamber Symphony No 2

Coupling Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht with his Second Chamber Symphony brings out contrasts as great as any this always provocative composer...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 02/2014

RÖNTGEN Cello Concertos

Fourteen sonatas, three concertos and five works for solo cello show what a presence the instrument was in Julius Röntgen’s...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 02/2014

RESPIGHI Complete Orchestral Music Vol 4

Volume 4 in Francesco La Vecchia’s ambitious Respighi series for Brilliant Classics launches in crisply invigorating style with the irresistible...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 02/2014

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