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NOVÁK South Bohemian Suite. In the Tatras. Eight Nocturnes

Vítĕzslav Novák (1870-1949) is a Czech composer little known to me but one with a richly lyrical melodic vein and...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 04/2013

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 21 & 22

For his concerto debut disc, the fast-rising young Norwegian pianist has alighted on two famous Mozart concertos of 1785, when...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2013

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 17 & 26

Brautigam’s sinuous reading of K453, which makes much of Mozart’s long, lolloping lines, has elegance to spare. But he doesn’t...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2013

MAHLER Symphony No 1

Some may find this an odd choice of project to launch the Vienna Symphony Orchestra’s own label. The tenure of...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 3/1989

MADETOJA Symphony No 2, Op 35

If Sibelius remains the pre-eminent Finnish symphonist, the benchmark indeed for all would-be 20th- and 21st-century symphonists, later compatriots –...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2013

LALO Symphonie espagnole. Sonate. Arlequin. Guitare

Conceived in the 1870s for the virtuosity and personality of Pablo de Sarasate, Edouard Lalo’s Symphonie espagnole finds another dynamic...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 04/2013

KARABITS Concertos for Orchestra Nos 1-3

Ivan Karabits (1945-2002), father of Kirill, the conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, was a major figure in Ukraine as...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 04/2013

GARRETA Violin Concerto TOLDRA Suite

The Catalan composer Juli Garreta (1875-1925) had already made a name for himself as a master of the sardana (a...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 04/2013

ELGAR Violin Concerto. Salut d'Amour. Offertoire

This was my first encounter with Toronto-born Catherine Manoukian. A private pupil of the late Dorothy DeLay, she’s a commanding...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 04/2013

BRUCKNER Symphony No 4

Should absolute music be heard and not seen? Whether it be the presence of a Martin Freeman lookalike in the...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2013

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