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DELIUS Hassan – Complete incidental music (Phillips)

Delius lovers will already cherish the Intermezzo and Serenade from Hassan as extracted and edited by Thomas Beecham for use...

Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 05/2024

BRITTEN Violin Concerto (Isabelle Faust)

Hot on the heels of Baiba Skride’s exhilarating account of Britten’s Violin Concerto comes this one from Isabelle Faust in...

Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 05/2024

BERNSTEIN Serenade WILLIAMS Violin Concerto No 1 (James Ehnes)

I’ve always admired the modesty and truthfulness of James Ehnes as a player – and you can hear that modesty...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 05/2024

BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 2, 7 & 9 (Noseda)

With these two albums, Gianandrea Noseda and the NSO of Washington DC conclude their Beethoven symphony cycle, and I’m left...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2024

BARTÓK The Wooden Prince. Divertimento. Romanian Folk Dances (Dausgaard)

Bartók was never fully content with The Wooden Prince and this final revision marks an end to his tinkering. It...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 05/2024

JS BACH Violin Concertos (Leonidas Kavakos)

In the booklet notes, Leonidas Kavakos is clearly keen for us to know that he has experimented with playing on...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 05/2024

CPE BACH 'Instrumental Theatre of Effects'

Emanuel Bach, second son of JS, was famous for his rhapsodising at the clavichord in his Hamburg home. As the...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2024

ANDRES The Blind Banister

Unsurprisingly perhaps, the inquisitive, explorative and dynamic approach one hears in Timo Andres’s piano-playing also comes through in his own...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 05/2024

CHOPIN Études (Yunchan Lim)

Ever since Yunchan Lim became the youngest-ever winner of the Van Cliburn Gold Medal in June 2022, the piano grapevine...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 05/2024

Velvet Brown. Tuba

The repertoire on Velvet Brown’s fourth recording for Crystal is of such absorbing interest and the playing of such high...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 05/2024

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