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HAYDN Symphonies Nos 26 & 86 MOZART Violin Concerto No 3

Harry Christophers and his Bostonians continue their survey through Haydn’s ‘Paris’ Symphonies with the suave No 86, pairing it this...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2018

GALLIANO; PIAZZOLLA Accordion & Bandoneón Concertos

Ástor Piazzolla’s Bandoneón Concerto has been well-served on record, most notably by the composer himself in a swaggering 1987 account...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2018

CHOPIN Piano Concerto No 1 (Pobłocka)

Although Ewa Pobłocka has amassed a sizeable discography since the early 1980s, only a handful of releases have crossed my...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2018

BRUCKNER Symphony No 4, 'Romantic' (Nelsons)

It’s apposite that Andris Nelsons’s account of Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony, the second release in his cycle of the composer’s symphonies,...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 04/2018

BRAHMS Complete Symphonies (Ticciati)

On paper, Robin Ticciati’s new set of Brahms’s symphonies bears a striking resemblance to the Scottish Chamber Orchestra’s previous recording...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2018

BRAHMS Piano Concertos (Laloum)

The French pianist Adam Laloum is Sony’s newest young artist on the block, signed in 2016. Seven years earlier he...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2018

BARTÓK Violin Concertos (Capuçon)

Writing in the 2013 Awards issue regarding Patricia Kopatchinskaja’s often striking version of Bartók’s Second Concerto (Gramophone Recording of the...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2018

JS BACH Violin Concertos (Zimmermann)

Frank Peter Zimmerman has slipped in a couple of less predictable offerings for this Bach violin concertos programme, because while...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2018

Venezia Millenaria

Two discs, over 50 performers and 1000 years of musical history: even by Jordi Savall’s standards, ‘Venezia Millenaria’ is an...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 04/2018

Sophie Bevan: Songs of Vain Glory

This collection of English songs (in this instance songs in English, since it contains two songs by Americans) is a...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 04/2018

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