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STRAVINSKY. MARTIN Violin Concertos

Quite an ear-opener. The Stravinsky Violin Concerto is little short of a revelation, lean and keen, with the kind of...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: AW/2012

SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2

Valentina Igoshina plays the two Shostakovich piano concertos with technical aplomb, an abundance of colour and spacious phrasing. But the...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: AW/2012

MENDELSSOHN Violin Concertos

This performance of the E minor Concerto is splendid in many ways. The OAE, with its period instruments, delivers textures...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: AW/2012

MARTINŮ La revue de cuisine. Concerto for Harpsichord and Small Orchestra

The Harpsichord Concerto may be first up in the Holst Sinfonietta’s entertaining programme but for most the chief interest will...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW/2012

MAHLER Symphony No 4

Another relatively lightweight Fourth, recorded live in glorious sound, proves interpretatively a curate’s egg. On the rostrum is Gabriel Feltz,...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: AW/2012

MACMILLAN Veni, Veni, Emmanuel

It was probably both a blessing and a curse that James MacMillan should have enjoyed such phenomenal success with his...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: AW/2012

LALO Concerto russe. Piano Concerto

With this second disc, BIS completes its recording of Lalo’s concertante violin works. Here once again is confirmation that Sarasate...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: AW/2012

MUSSORGSKY A Night on the Bare Mountain RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Scheherazade

Zdeněk Chalabala’s greatest claim to fame was as an opera conductor – in Prague, Brno and at the Bolshoi –...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW/2012

HOLMBOE Chamber Symphonies

If you do not know them (and how would you? Only No 1 has even been broadcast in the UK...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW/2012

HELLAWELL Airs, Waters

A composer often underestimated, Piers Hellawell has amassed a substantial output which has been the focus of several discs, this...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: AW/2012

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