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DEAN The Lost Art of Letter Writing. Vexations and Devotions

Brett Dean’s violin concerto The Lost Art of Letter Writing was composed in 2006, revised the following year and won...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2014

Mixed Doubles: Double Concertos by Manduell and Crosse

All three works by the Lancastrian Gordon Crosse (b1937) on this enterprising release were penned during the summer and autumn...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 01/2014

BRAHMS Symphonies 1 & 2

These Brahms performances derive from the Brahms and Szymanowski cycle which Gergiev and the LSO toured in the latter half...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 01/2014

BRAHMS Serenade No 1 BEETHOVEN Romances Nos 1 & 2

It’s clear that Augustin Dumay has a close rapport with his Japanese orchestra. Throughout the Serenade the players shape the...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 01/2014

BRAHMS Piano Concertos

The best recordings of the Brahms concertos are collaborative ventures in which the finest pianists are matched by the finest...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 01/2014

BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto Op 61. Symphony No 7

With such an oft-recorded work as the Beethoven Violin Concerto it’s understandable that performers will search for a new angle....

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 01/2014

BARTÓK Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta. Four Orchestral Pieces

Edward Gardner is fast proving himself able to persuade just about any orchestra to follow his lead with precision and...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2014

CPE BACH Symphonies and Concertos

‘Fantastical and far-fetched’ was how one 18th-century writer described the music of CPE Bach, whose most personal music epitomises the...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 01/2014

WAGNER Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Logic suggests that DVD works best for stagings of operas, CD for studio recordings. Glyndebourne has therefore taken a risk...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 01/2014

VERDI Simon Boccanegra

Over the decades, Simon Boccanegra has not been recorded blithely. Major studio-made sets capture each successive generation of Verdians –...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 01/2014

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