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Review of C & R SCHUMANN Piano Concertos (Beatrice Rana)

C & R SCHUMANN Piano Concertos (Beatrice Rana)

Prodigy Clara Schumann (Wieck at the time) was 14 when she wrote the third movement of her Concerto, and 16...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 03/2023

Review of SCHUMANN Symphony Nos 3 & 4 (Alsop)

SCHUMANN Symphony Nos 3 & 4 (Alsop)

‘Subtle’ is the adjective used on the inlay card for this concluding volume of Mahler’s reorchestrations of Schumann’s symphonies. Well,...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2023

Review of SANTORO Fantasias Sul América. Sonata For Solo Violin

SANTORO Fantasias Sul América. Sonata For Solo Violin

The title of this series of solo works has nothing to do with South America in the sense that one...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 03/2023

Review of PROKOFIEV Violin Concertos (Maria Milstein)

PROKOFIEV Violin Concertos (Maria Milstein)

Gone are the days when these scores occupied a less than central place in the repertoire. Recent recordings have set...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2023

Review of PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No 2. Symphony No 2 (Andrei Korobeinikov)

PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No 2. Symphony No 2 (Andrei Korobeinikov)

Prokofiev at his most excessive makes for an unusual but perfectly logical concerto-symphony coupling. That it should come courtesy of...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 03/2023

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Review of NIELSEN Symophonies Nos 2 & 6 (Luisi)

NIELSEN Symophonies Nos 2 & 6 (Luisi)

The final instalment in this marvellous cycle of the Carl Nielsen symphonies does not disappoint. The Danish National Symphony Orchestra...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2023

Review of MOZART Violin Concertos Nos 3-5 (Gottfried von der Goltz)

MOZART Violin Concertos Nos 3-5 (Gottfried von der Goltz)

That Gottfried von der Goltz and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra have arrowed straight to the three most popular (and uncoincidentally...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 03/2023

Review of MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 24 & 25 (Jean-Efflam Bavouzet)

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 24 & 25 (Jean-Efflam Bavouzet)

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s happy collaboration with Gábor Takács-Nagy and the Manchester Camerata in the Mozart piano concertos, begun in 2016, has...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2023

Review of MASKATS Accordion Concerto. Tango. Cantus Diatonicus; My River Runs To Thee

MASKATS Accordion Concerto. Tango. Cantus Diatonicus; My River Runs To Thee

One of Arturs Maskats’s intentions with his symphonic poem Tango (2002), which came third in the 2003 Masterprize International Composers’...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2023

Review of DURANTE Concerti per archi

DURANTE Concerti per archi

‘The greatest harmonist in Italy, that is to say in the world’, wrote Jean-Jacques Rousseau of Francesco Durante in his...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 03/2023


 

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