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RUBINSTEIN Piano Concerto No 4. Caprice Russe (Shelest)

A one-time concert staple, Anton Rubinstein’s Fourth Piano Concerto virtually disappeared from the repertoire in the West by the mid-20th...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2018

RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No 3 SIBELIUS Symphony No 2

In an ideal world there should be no need for a special orchestra that selects musicians on the basis of...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 10/2018

MOZART Symphonies Nos 40 & 41 (Blomstedt)

Mozart’s late symphonic music is nowadays so much the province – almost the property – of the period-instrument brigade that...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 10/2018

MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto (Siranossian)

Chouchane Siranossian and Anima Eterna present not the familiar versions of these two evergreen masterpieces but instead go back to...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 10/2018

LINDBERG Violin Concerto No 2 (Zimmermann)

Magnus Lindberg wrote his Violin Concerto No 2 (2015) for Frank Peter Zimmermann. Whether or not the German’s thick-set tone...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 10/2018

HOLST The Planets (Batt)

Why, you may rightly ask, has it taken fully 25 years for this set of Holst’s The Planets to see...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2018

HERSCH Violin Concerto. end stages (Kopatchinskaja)

Michael Hersch’s Violin Concerto (2015) immediately hurls us into a wrenching scene. Trumpet and horn yelp a distressed fanfare as...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2018

GIPPS Symphonies Nos 2 & 4

‘That’s the best piece of classical music you’ve played to me’, quipped my 10-year-old daughter on hearing Ruth Gipps’s Second...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2018

FINZI Cello Concerto (Paul Watkins)

Recordings of Gerald Finzi’s imposing Cello Concerto (premiered at the Cheltenham Festival under John Barbirolli in 1955, the last full...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2018

BRUCKNER String Quintet. Overture (Schaller)

The scale and richness of Bruckner’s String Quintet have encouraged a number of arrangements for string orchestra over the years,...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 10/2018

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