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SCHMITT La Tragédie de Salomé. Chant élégiaque

For all his longevity and prolificacy, Florent Schmitt remains best remembered for a trilogy of pieces from the early 20th...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2024

REINECKE; SAUER Piano Concertos (Simon Callaghan)

The most significant thing about Hyperion’s latest Romantic Piano Concerto instalment is its inclusion of Emil von Sauer’s Second Concerto...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2024

PROKOFIEV; SIBELIUS Violin Concertos (Janine Jansen)

So impressive. Janine Jansen essentially strips these pieces of all the years of what one might call ‘performance adornment’ and...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 07/2024

PROKOFIEV Symphony-Concerto (Christian Poltéra)

Prokofiev had three goes at getting his first cello concerto right, and the last of these, the Symphony-Concerto (previously, and...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 07/2024

PICKARD Symphonies Nos 2 & 6. Verlaine Songs (Brabbins)

I began with the Sixth Symphony, John Pickard’s most recent essay in the medium, conceived in early 2021 during the...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 07/2024

All These Lighted Things: Prokofiev - Ogonek - Ravel

The novelty on this nicely if unspectacularly recorded album is the set of ‘three short dances’ for orchestra All These...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2024

MOZART Piano Concertos 11, 12 & 13 (Jean-Efflam Bavouzet; Ben Kim)

Here we have two experienced Mozartians, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet now in his ninth volume of Mozart piano concertos, Ben Kim in...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2024

KAPRÁLOVÁ The Completed Orchestral Works (Hron)

A student of Novák, Martinů and Václav Talich, Vítězslava Kaprálová (1915‑40) might have been a leading composer of the last...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2024

FUCHS Orchestral Works Vol 2 (Wilson)

John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London continue their exploration of the orchestral works of Kenneth Fuchs in a second...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 07/2024

Renaud Capuçon: Gabriel Fauré

The flow of recordings marking this centenary year of Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) may be now well under way but the...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 07/2024

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