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WIENIAWSKI. CONUS Violin Concertos

Wieniawski’s First Concerto, composed when he was just 17, shows the young violinist’s ambition to scale the heights of virtuosity...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 04/2013

WEINBERG Symphony No 8

In 1964 Weinberg produced a follow-up to his Sixth Symphony that displays an even more sharply focused social conscience. The...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 04/2013

VIVALDI Bassoon Concertos Vol 3

In his booklet-note for this third volume of bassoon concertos, Sergio Azzolini wonders what or who it was that inspired...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2013

TURINA Danzas fantásticas

The comparative versions listed below of the purely orchestral works show how popular Turina’s colourfully scored compositions have become. It...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2013

TELLEFSEN Piano Concerto No 1, Op 8

The first of Tellefsen’s two piano concertos, completed in 1848 and first performed in 1852, confirms the composer as a...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2013

SIBELIUS; TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concertos

Soyoung Yoon gives meticulous, highly disciplined performances of both these concertos. It’s lovely violin-playing, stressing clarity and beauty of tone....

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 04/2013

SCHUMANN Symphonies Nos 1 & 3

With this disc of the two ‘named’ symphonies, Christian Zacharias and the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra round off their survey of...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2013

RAVEL Orchestral Works

There is nothing unusual in the choice of works for this portmanteau CD of central Ravel but Emmanuel Krivine elicits...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 04/2013

RAFF Symphony No 2

I had to smile when, at around 12'09" into the Orchestral Prelude to The Tempest of 1879, I noted how...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2013

P R OLSEN Piano Concerto. Variations Symphoniques. Au fond de la nuit

If not the greatest of 20th-century Danish composers – Nielsen, Holmboe and Nørgård vie for that honour – Poul Rovsing...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2013

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