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Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 4

Mikhail Pletnev sets the young Beethoven fairly and squarely before us in the opening movement of the young tearaway’s first...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 13/2007

Vine Symphonies Nos 1 - 6

While he may be less a born symphonist than having had symphonism thrust upon him, Carl Vine made a sizeable...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 4/2006

Martin Concerto for Cello and Orchestra; Ballade for Piano and Orchestra

Many music lovers will not have been exposed to much of Frank Martin’s music, and that includes me. So I...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/2008

Nordheim Tenebrae & Magma

Arne Nordheim composed his single-movement cello concerto Tenebrae (''Shadows'') in 1982. The commission—from Rostropovich—prompted him to compose a series of...

Reviewed in issue 12/1992

Twining Chrysalid Requiem.

Commissioned by the New York downtown composers’ collective Bang on a Can for their People’s Commissioning Fund Concert in 2000,...

Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 4/2003

José Carreras - Around the World

Five producers‚ three conductors and five different recording venues were used for this collection of popular songs from ‘as many...

Reviewed in issue 3/2002

Fibich Symphonies 2 & 3

It clearly made sense to combine these two recordings. The two original issues were each rather slim value, since they...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 2/1988

Elgar (The) Crown of India

Sir Andrew Davis’s first recording for Chandos brings this extravagantly enjoyable resuscitation of The Crown of India, an “Imperial Masque...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 1/2010

Kagel Kantrimiusik

I wonder if Mauricio Kagel knew Flanders and Swann’s “I’m a Gnu”? I only raise the possibility because the seventh...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 7/2009

Liszt Orchestral Songs

None of these songs was originally conceived in terms of the orchestra, though in rescoring the more familiar piano versions...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 7/1987

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