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Vivaldi x2²

When it comes to explosively vibrant album-opening chords, it takes some doing to top the Red-Bull-meets-fireworks-show shot of musical adrenalin...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 10/2024

SCHURMANN Orchestral Works (Gernon)

Gerard Schurmann throws down the gauntlet at the beginning of his Piano Concerto from 1972 73 with an opening cadenza...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 10/2024

ICHMOURATOV; SCHUBERT Works for Strings

After the LGT Young Soloists’ several thematically programmed CDs, this one offers an unlikely juxtaposition of repertoire: the instrumentation becomes...

Reviewed by Stephen Cera in issue: 10/2024

PROKOFIEV Symphony No 1. Romeo and Juliet (Shokhakimov)

This Warner Classics disc does indeed contain Prokofiev’s ultimate hits: we have the Classical Symphony and then two suites from...

Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 10/2024

PONE Portraits

There are riches flowing from the Skani label, currently doing internationally for Latvian music what Dacapo previously has for Danish....

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 10/2024

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 20 & 23 (Olga Pashchenko)

The slow movement of the A major Piano Concerto, K488, is a revealing indicator of a pianist’s approach to Mozart....

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 10/2024

MOZART Flute Concertos. Concerto for Flute and Harp (François Lazarevitch)

Period-instrument recordings of Mozart’s delightful Concerto for flute and harp are surprisingly infrequent, so it is good to see this...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2024

MENDELSSOHN Piano Concerto No 1 (Isata Kanneh-Mason)

Isata Kanneh-Mason’s fifth Decca release is dedicated to the music of Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn in an interesting programme including...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2024

LISZT A Faust Symphonie. Mephisto Waltz No 1 (Madaras)

Hard on the heels of Kirill Karabits’s high-powered Faust Symphony (Audite, 10/23) comes Gergely Madaras’s version from Liège, equally compelling...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 10/2024

HILLBORG Violin Concerto No 2. Liquid Marble (Eldbjørg Hemsing)

Anders Hillborg’s Violin Concerto No 2 is a real head-scratcher, but after eight or nine listens I’m just about ready...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 10/2024

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