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PROKOFIEV Symphony No 1 TCHAIKOVSKY Variations on a Rococo Theme

Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations continues to be one of his most popular pieces, beloved of cellists as well as their audiences....

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/2011

MATHIAS Piano Concertos 1 & 2 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Fantasy

A late developer, Vaughan Williams took many years to ‘find’ his voice, and this, it could fairly be said, emerged...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 12/2011

IRELAND Piano Concerto. Legend. Rhapsody No 1

I am delighted to welcome to the catalogue a splendid new recording of what is undoubtedly the finest of all...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/2011

DOHNÁNYI Symphony in F. Zrinyi Overture No 2

The musical highlight here is the wartime Waltz Suite, four separate pieces, all of them abundantly tuneful, the first cast...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2011

DELIUS Concertos

Some two decades ago Tasmin Little set down memorable versions of both the Violin Concerto and Double Concerto with Sir...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2011

CURRIER Time Machines PENDERECKI Duo Concertante

Highly rated star performers can all too easily avoid the farther reaches of contemporary music. These four works written for...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/2011

JS BACH; TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concertos

Valeriy Sokolov has the measure of both of these concertos and sounds entirely comfortable coping with their different technical demands....

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 12/2011

'My True Love Hath my Heart'

Sarah Connolly, with her clear, fresh mezzo, here tackles a delightful, wide-ranging sequence of English songs, with Roger Quilter the...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 01/2012

Hidden Treasure

The digital dissemination of classical music now means that worthy artists need not go unrecorded – as in generations past....

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 01/2012

Melancolia

A remarkable achievement: a fan letter to Spanish music (not excluding South America or an excursion to Villa-Lobos’s Brazil) including...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 01/2012

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