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KRAUS Viola Concertos

Joseph Martin Kraus is best known for being born in the same year as Mozart and for writing the music...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2012

ELGAR Enigma Variations. Pomp and Circumstance Marches Nos 1-5, Op 39

The programme’s a generous one, with the Royal Philharmonic sounding in eminently healthy fettle (though the Cadogan Hall acoustic imparts...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2012

GÁL; ELGAR Cello Concertos

Avie’s rehabilitation of Hans Gál (1890-1987) continues in handsome fashion with a superb first recording of his Cello Concerto. Written,...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2012

CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2

This enterprising disc includes a first performance and recording of Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s Four Dances from Love’s Labour’s Lost given, like the...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 09/2012

BRUCKNER Symphony No 4

This is the seventh disc of Bruckner symphonies that Ivor Bolton has recorded for the Oehms label. I confess I...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 09/2012

BRAHMS Symphony No 2. Tragic Overture

Rob Cowan found the First Symphony of this cycle heavy-set (3/11) and the Second pursues a similarly direct and unhurried...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2012

BLOCH Schelomo. Voice in the Wilderness BRUCH Kol Nidrei

Schelomo (‘Solomon’) grew from a project to set verses from the book of Ecclesiastes but Bloch later opted for a...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 09/2012

BRUCH; BEETHOVEN; MENDELSSOHN Violin Concertos

Over a number of years, Philippe Quint has developed a close alliance with the Mexican Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería and...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 09/2012

Le Triomphe de l’amour

‘The triumph of love’ runs the rubric, though, as Sandrine Piau comments in the booklet, Cupid’s triumph is rarely shared...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 09/2012

L'Olimpiade

The operatic pasticcio – literally ‘hotch-potch’ or ‘pudding’ – was fair game for 18th-century satirists. Unfazed, impresarios and composers, Handel...

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