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SHOSTAKOVICH The Gadfly

That The Gadfly (1955) is both tuneful and engaging has sometimes been taken to reflect Shostakovich’s improved political situation following...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 02/2018

SHOSTAKOVICH Concerto for Piano & Trumpet. Symphony No 9

Though Martha Argerich first recorded the Shostakovich Concerto for piano and trumpet in 1993 (DG, 1/95), most fans probably know...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 02/2018

DE RAAFF Violin Concerto. Symphony No 1

He is yet to enjoy much profile in the UK but Robin de Raaff (b1968) is among the leading Dutch...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2018

PROKOFIEV Symphonies Nos 2 & 3 (Jurowski)

This is the first instalment of yet another Prokofiev symphony cycle in what has lately become a hotly competitive field....

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 02/2018

PROKOFIEV Violin Concertos (Pietsch)

Turning her back on the recent fashion for mixing Prokofiev’s concertante and chamber works and having already recorded the violin...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 02/2018

PAGANINI; WOLF-FERRARI Violin Concertos

DG has a good track record with Paganini’s First Violin Concerto: five different recordings by different artists currently available on...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2018

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 23 & 27 (Pressler)

I gather that Kimbo Ishii sets a sedate tempo for K488’s opening ritornello to accommodate Menahem Pressler’s 94 year-old hands....

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2018

GARŪTA Concerto for Piano and Orchestra. Preludes

For those like me to whom the name of Lūcija Garūta is new, let me tell you (because the discursive...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2018

COPLAND Symphony No 1. Dance Symphony

As with the previous instalment, this third volume of John Wilson and the BBC Philharmonic’s survey of Copland’s orchestral music...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2018

GÁL; CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO Cello Concertos

Both these composers were forced from their homelands by Nazism, a big enough upheaval for anyone to come to terms...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 02/2018

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