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Review of SCHUBERT Symphonies Nos 5 & 6

SCHUBERT Symphonies Nos 5 & 6

He’s cultivated and urbane. David Zinman coasts along feeling no undercurrents within No 5. For him, Schubert remains the teenager...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 03/2013

Review of SAINT-SAËNS; TCHAIKOVSKY Works for Cello & Orchestra

SAINT-SAËNS; TCHAIKOVSKY Works for Cello & Orchestra

From the very first bars of Saint-Saëns’s First Cello Concerto you sense that this disc is going to be exhilarating...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 03/2013

Review of RACHMANINOV The Isle of the Dead, Op 29. The Rock, Op 7. Symphonic Dances, Op 45

RACHMANINOV The Isle of the Dead, Op 29. The Rock, Op 7. Symphonic Dances, Op 45

While it must be acknowledged that ominous, despondent images of mortality haunt The Isle of the Dead, this performance of...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 03/2013

Review of PROKOFIEV Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 2. Violin Sonata Op 115

PROKOFIEV Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 2. Violin Sonata Op 115

Prokofiev’s violin concertos have been strongly represented on disc since the mid-1930s when Joseph Szigeti and Jascha Heifetz took up...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2013

Review of PAGANINI Moto perpetuo, Op 11. Violin Concerto No 5. I palpiti, Op 13

PAGANINI Moto perpetuo, Op 11. Violin Concerto No 5. I palpiti, Op 13

Paganini’s Fifth Concerto, the last he composed, is preserved only in the form of a solo part, which, however, contains...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 03/2013

Review of Mendelssohn_Violin Concertos

Mendelssohn_Violin Concertos

Despite the best efforts of Yehudi Menuhin in championing Mendelssohn’s Concerto in D minor, the youthful work has never caught...

Reviewed by K Smith in issue: 03/2013

Review of KORNGOLD Much Ado About Nothing. Sinfonietta

KORNGOLD Much Ado About Nothing. Sinfonietta

Over the years there have been a number of recordings in various guises from Korngold’s incidental music to Much Ado...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 03/2013

Review of KHACHATURIAN Concerto-Rhapsody LYAPUNOV Violin Concerto Op 61

KHACHATURIAN Concerto-Rhapsody LYAPUNOV Violin Concerto Op 61

Most of the one-movement concerto-rhapsodies Aram Khachaturian manufactured in the 1960s are less familiar than the concertos he composed for...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2013

Review of HOLST The Planets

HOLST The Planets

Conceived in conjunction with a summer 2012 installation at London’s Science Museum, the Philharmonia’s ‘Universe of Sound Holst The Planets’...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 03/2013

Review of HAYDN Symphonies 6 - 8 'The Day Trilogy'

HAYDN Symphonies 6 - 8 'The Day Trilogy'

Haydn’s first symphonies for his new employer, Prince Paul Anton Esterházy, form a group of three for which the Germans...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2013

 

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