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LALO; SAINT-SAËNS Cello Concertos

Pieter Wispelwey is among the top rank of cellists, leading a generation of current performers who are equally impressive on...

Reviewed by IMarch in issue: 09/2013

HINDEMITH Violin Concerto. Violin Sonatas

The benchmark recording of Hindemith’s Violin Concerto remains Oistrakh’s with the composer from 1962, now 50 years old but still...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2013

GUNNING Symphony No 5. String Quartet No 1

‘Discovery’ is an appropriate CD label for this pair of works by Christopher Gunning. The composer tells us in the...

Reviewed by IMarch in issue: 09/2013

GRIEG Complete Symphonic Works Vol III

The first two discs in this ‘Complete Symphonic Works’ series (10/11, 11/11) were outstanding. This third is wholly exceptional. The...

Reviewed in issue 09/2013

FELDMAN Violin and Orchestra

You suspect, in the great scheme of music, orchestral musicians would rather play nearly anything else than a 50-minute piece...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 09/2013

FALLA Noches en los jardines de España FRANCK Symphonic Variations

Throughout her long and distinguished, if insufficiently acknowledged career, Valerie Tryon has remained true to her own lights. Virtuoso teasers...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 09/2013

ELGAR Symphony No 2

No doubt about it, Sakari Oramo is an Elgarian of strong instinct, and this abundantly characterful, cannily paced and deeply...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2013

DUBOIS Piano Concerto No 2. Suite for Piano and String Orchestra

The booklet for this, the 60th volume of Hyperion’s landmark series, quotes an entry from Dubois’s diary just two years...

Reviewed in issue 09/2013

DEBUSSY Première Suite d'Orchestre. La Mer

Many a disc of Debussy’s La mer has popped through the letterbox over the past few years but this version...

Reviewed by Geoffrey–Norris in issue: 09/2013

BRUCKNER Symphony No 7

Stunned silence greets the conclusion of Christian Thielemann’s inaugural concert as principal conductor of the Staatskapelle Dresden. With the closing...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2013

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